[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50486: Improve the admin notices accessibility

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Tue Mar 31 15:41:44 UTC 2026


#50486: Improve the admin notices accessibility
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 Reporter:  afercia                   |       Owner:  joedolson
     Type:  defect (bug)              |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  7.1
Component:  Administration            |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch dev-feedback  |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility
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Changes (by joedolson):

 * milestone:  Future Release => 7.1


Comment:

 Thanks for all your thoughts @sanketparmar!

 There are a few details that I would probably change; in particular, I'd
 probably want to use an `aside` element instead of a div with
 `role="complementary"`. But these are minor details that can be worked out
 in development.

 I have a partial PR already for some of the outstanding admin notices to
 adjust. It's woefully out of date, but I could refresh it and complete it.
 https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/5225.

 The inline notices are definitely separate. I'm wondering if what we
 actually want to do is turn those into two separate classes of notices.
 There are sound reasons for using inline notices - in particular, for
 dynamic actions. We can consider that all inline notices should be
 delivered dynamically & should trigger a spoken notification, but not be
 included in the same class as notices that are loaded during a page load.
 They'll each need individual consideration, however, as there are a lot of
 variations in how these are used in core...

 With your work on detailing a process and willingness to help out, I'm
 going to go ahead and milestone this for 7.1. It would be a great set of
 changes to get done.

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