Web Accessibility and WordPress - January 2019 WordPress Meetup

This Session overview of web accessibility standards and will provide information about how to use existing tools to ensure your themes, plugins, and content are compliant with those standards.

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2. Objective • Provide information about.. • Web accessibility • It's standards • How to use standards to ensure your themes, plugins, and content are accessible. Resource Link: https://codex.wordpress.org/Accessibility
3. Expectations • Learn about accessibility • Implement testing tools into your workflow • Spread the info ahead and Tell your friends! • Repeat
4. What is Accessibility? Accessibility in web design means creating web pages that everyone can use, regardless of hardware, software, or any sensory or physical impairment. Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, interact with, and contribute to the Web.
5. What is Accessibility? • Those who cannot see or use a mouse. • Deaf users whose first language is sign language. • Visitors whose primary language is not your language. • People who use special assistive software or hardware to access the Web. • People who are colour blind or can’t see low colour contrast. These people need access to web pages, and as a web developer, you need to know about accessibility.
6. Why it is important to use it's Standards? What if your website user is injured and he can not use his right hand to use a mouse for next 6 months! You were receiving a lot revenue due to him and now for 6 months, you won’t receive even a single rupee! But what if you have already used Accessibility standards and now that person can use only KEYBOARD to access your web! Hfff… Thank God!
7. Accessibility doesn’t just benefit people with specific disabilities, it improves the usability of a website for everyone. Laura Kalbag, Accessibility for Everyone
8. Why it is important to use it's Standards? 8.2% + 6.3% + 3.3% + 3.1% + = 20.9%
11. What are Accessibility Standards?
12. WCAG 2.0 Checklist http://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist Section 508 Checklist http://webaim.org/standards/508/checklist
13. Examples..
31. Things to remember..
35. ARIA
38. Handbooks Handbook on WordPress Accessibility Theme Handbook on Accessibility Guidelines Useful tools for accessibility testing
39. So Let’s Help People!
40. Thank you.. Questions? Mayur Keshwani Project Manager, Multidots Solutions