How to Remediate Accessibility Issues in WordPress
If you test websites for accessibility issues, you are likely used to identifying issues and making recommendations at the level of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Conversely, if you are a website owner and you get a third-party accessibility audit, the issues and recommendations in the report will likely be at the level of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
However, if you use WordPress, code-level recommendations may not be that useful to you. In WordPress, your website is generated by combining together many different components including WordPress core, your theme, plugins you may have installed, media you may have uploaded, and your individual pages and posts. That means remediating accessibility issues in WordPress is not as simple as “edit this line of code here.”
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Cam Coulter at WordPress Accessibility Day 2024
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🕒 Timestamps
00:00 - Opening & Welcome
01:41 - Speaker Introduction: Cam Coulter
04:22 - Learning Goals & Target Audience
06:26 - Main Parts of a WordPress Site
09:39 - Page-Level Accessibility Issues
11:03 - Live Demo: Identifying Page Issues
13:25 - Fixing Page Issues in WordPress Editor
19:49 - Plugin-Level Issues Overview
21:10 - Demo: Plugin Focus Indicator Problem
22:34 - How to Fix Plugin Issues
31:58 - Theme-Level Issues Explained
34:01 - Fixing Theme-level Issues
41:02 - Resources & Documentation Links
41:47 - Q&A Session Begins
51:12 - Closing Remarks & Next Session
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