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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello David,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am the web administrator at
<a href="https://georgian.edu/">Georgian Court University</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I just went through this, transforming our 800+ page non-accessible site. (3-month development time)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">After a few months of research, multiple themes/plugins, etc., I went with the GeneratePress theme, using Elementor for our page builder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Also, during development, I used the Google Chrome extension “Siteimprove Accessibility Checker”. (University’s need to be AA compliant)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please let me know if you have any additional, more specific questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Rich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F81BD">Richard Berardi</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Web Administrator</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
Marketing & Communications<br>
Georgian Court University<br>
900 Lakewood Ave.<br>
Lakewood, NJ 08701<br>
p: <a href="tel:732-987-2469" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">732-987-2469</span></a><br>
e: <a href="mailto:rberardi@georgian.edu" target="_blank" title="mailto:rberardi@georgian.edu
mailto:greenhalgh@georgian.edu"><span style="color:purple">rberardi@georgian.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">wp-edu <wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com> on behalf of "Grogan, David" <David.Grogan@tufts.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education." <wp-edu@lists.automattic.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 2:03 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"wp-edu@lists.automattic.com" <wp-edu@lists.automattic.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXT]: [wp-edu] Ensuring WordPress sites meet accessibility standards?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#9C6500">**External Email**</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#9C6500">
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</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#9C6500">This email originated from outside of Georgian Court University. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Recent mandates and guidelines at our school have us taking a close look at how we can ensure sites created on our multi-site instance are meeting digital accessibility standards (keyboard access to all features
of a site, accessible by screen readers etc.). Since we run our system as a self-service platform it’s going to be difficult to have all sites 100% accessible but we are looking at ways to mitigate issues.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’d be interested to know how others are approaching this issue.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m going to assessing these three plugins:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="list-number2"><span class="author-187698890"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#222222"><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/" target="_blank">https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="list-number2"><span class="author-187698890"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#222222"><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility-helper/" target="_blank">https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility-helper/</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="list-number2"><span class="author-187698890"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#222222"><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/userway-accessibility-widget/" target="_blank">https://wordpress.org/plugins/userway-accessibility-widget/</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Are there others people can recommend?
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Are there certain themes that are more accessible than others that you have tried?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Any thoughts/experiences/ideas you have would be greatly appreciated.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best wishes,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">David</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">-- </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">David Grogan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Senior Solutions Specialist</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Tufts Technology Services – Educational Technology Services</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">617-627-2859</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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