The third edition of The Accessibility Show with Nathan Wrigley of WP Builds dropped early this morning, and I have to say that I’m really enjoying this show. First of all, chatting with Nathan is a bright spot in my day every time – he really is the nicest man I know. But I’m also finding it fascinating to go into the WordPress showcase and pick out just one issue to highlight as an accessibility problem. Focusing on one issue […]
Continue reading “The Accessibility Show #3: Newsletter Sign-ups” »Category: Accessibility
Launch of The Accessibility Show on WP Builds
Today is the release of the first episode of The Accessibility Show on WPBuilds – a podcast series I’m doing with the marvelous Nathan Wrigley. The Accessibility Show is going to focus on one issue per show: just one interface component or just one accessibility issue, then examine it in a set of various sites. Where are we sourcing the sites? The WordPress Showcase. The showcase is a particularly interesting source for information. Like many design collections, this holds sites […]
Continue reading “Launch of The Accessibility Show on WP Builds” »Overlays Misunderstand Accessibility
Accessibility overlays are a peculiar approach to accessibility problems. They make many assumptions that demonstrate a failure to understand assistive technology and human needs. As a concept, overlays are fundamentally flawed, because they are used by a website, not a human being. Labeling disability before function For example, AccessiBe has several accessibility modes. These modes are labeled by disability type, like “ADHD mode.” This reflects a fundamental failure to understand assistive technology and what real users need. A tool to […]
Continue reading “Overlays Misunderstand Accessibility” »Hover Color Contrast Bookmarklet
This past weekend, I was looking at a WordPress trac ticket about hover color contrast in the admin. One of the things that was frustrating about this ticket is the amount of labor expected in testing – because accessibility tools mostly test the page as is. It’s certainly possible to implement automated tooling that can look at all of that, but introducing a whole new suite of tests to WordPress core was outside of my area of expertise. But a […]
Continue reading “Hover Color Contrast Bookmarklet” »2023: Year in Review
Minor miracle for me to get one of these done three years in a row – but let’s get it rolling! This got delayed because I’m recovering from minor surgery, but here we go… WordPress Contributions I made 85 commits to WordPress core in 2023 – almost three times as many as in 2022. This included committing some significant accessibility fixes and adding a new function that generates the markup for admin notices. This was the first year I’ve been […]
Continue reading “2023: Year in Review” »