#52399: Remove widget accessibility mode
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Reporter: joedolson | Owner: joedolson
Type: enhancement | Status: accepted
Priority: normal | Milestone: 5.9
Component: Widgets | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: needs-patch needs- | Focuses: ui, accessibility,
design | administration
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Comment (by ryokuhi):
We reviewed this ticket today during the accessibility team's bug scrub.
To sum up the discussion, the team agreed that the final goal for this
ticket is to have a single classic widget screen which is accessible by
default. This will need work in two directions:
* reach feature parity by adding features that are currently only
available in accessibility mode to the classic widget screen (as pointed
out in the ticket description above);
* solve accessibility issues currently found in the classic widget screen.
This ticket will probably be better addressed if split into smaller
chunks, to make progress little by little. But first, it's better to list
all accessibility issues that can be found in the classic widget screen.
To do so, testing the classic widget screen with and without assistive
technologies would help in finding existing bugs.
Since WordPress 5.8, the new Block Widget screen is the default, so to
test the old classic widget screen you'll have to install the
[https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/ Classic Widgets ​plugin],
which is available in the plugin repository and can be installed using
your preferred method (either by downolading and uploading it or by
installing it directly from the admin screen).
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