Presentation for WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna. View it on WordPress TV:: http://wordpress.tv/2016/06/30/rian-rietveld-wordpress-state-of-the-accessibility/ Corresponding blogpost with text and links at http://www.rianrietveld.com/2016/05/wceu16/

1. Wappu #a11y

2. WordPress
State of the Accessibility
WordCamp Europe 2016

3. Text & links
rianrietveld.com/wceu16

4. So, how accessible is
WordPress?

5. Well, it depends…

6. A lot is pretty good!

7. Frontend

8. Basic content management

9. TO DO

10. TO DO: Legacy code

11. TO DO: Consistency

12. Consistency: Search posts

13. Consistency: Search themes

14. Consistency: Search plugins

15. TO DO: Accessibility-ready reviews

16. Eva Westerhoff @evawesterhoff

17. Goodmorning WordCamp Europe
I hope you have lots of fun in Vienna
Eva Westerhoff @evawesterhoff

18. Subtitles in WordPress.tv
On May 18th there were 4648 videos
on WordPress.tv, of which 246 have subtitles.
That’s 5%

19. This is a work in progress

20. Rebuild from scratch?

21. Media!

23. JavaScript is not the enemy

24. Milestones
2015 - 2016

26. “All new or updated code
released into WordPress core and bundled
themes
must conform with the
WCAG 2.0 guidelines at level AA.”

27. EU logo

28. • Accessibility handbook
• Code patterns on GitHub
• JS method wp.a11y.speak()
• Accessibility forum
• Test team
Help is on the way:

29. Meet the test team!

30. 3 tips to improve your code
• Use one H1 per page
• Check for colour contrast
• Keyboard test

31. Where are we now?

32. Contributor days & Meetups

33. While you are learning
JavaScript deeply,
learn accessibility deeply too!

34. Text & links
rianrietveld.com/wceu16
@rianrietveld

35. Image credits
Children at school by Lucélia Ribeiro,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lupuca/
Emoijs from http://emojione.com
Old Garage and mess by Moyan Brenn
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aigle_dore/
Lonely departure (Explored) by Cyril
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cilou101/
Test team: images provided by the testers themselves