The next major release of My Calendar is in beta, and I’d appreciate any testing of the beta possible! There are new major new features in this release – it’s focused primarily on updating to conform to the latest version of the WordPress PHP (Hypertext PreProcessing) ruleset. One of the key changes includes some significant changes to how dates and times are displayed – this should help resolve some problems relating to timezones, but definitely needs some significant testing to […]
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On Thursday, September 27th, 2012, I wrote this email to the WordPress theme reviewers email list (which is now defunct.) So, this is my first post to the theme-reviewers list, so I hope I’m proposing this in the best possible place. I’ve been in a number of discussions with people in the Accessibility and the WordPress communities about the need to improve accessibility in WordPress themes — or, more specifically, improve the ability to locate accessible WordPress themes which have […]
Continue reading “Thursday, September 27th, 2012” »Your Accessibility Toolbar Doesn’t Help
Mr. Borghi said that he was happy to make his gallery’s website accessible and that he was able to do it with a free widget from WordPress, which added narration, larger fonts and keyboard navigation. But he said he was not sure if that made him fully compliant; the lawsuit against his gallery is still pending. NYTimes.com, 2/18/2019 Mr. Borghi is not certain whether adding this unidentified WordPress plug-in made him fully compliant – but I can readily suggest an […]
Continue reading “Your Accessibility Toolbar Doesn’t Help” »WordPress 5.0 Releases Today. What should you do?
The hubbub surrounding Gutenberg (soon to be known only as “the block editor”) has been intense since early October. For the purpose of this post, I want to put aside discussion of the process that lead to the release. Instead, I’m going to make my own specific recommendations for what users of WordPress should do. First, this is based on the assumption that you will stay on WordPress. Unless you have a pressing need to change content management systems, I […]
Continue reading “WordPress 5.0 Releases Today. What should you do?” »Plugin Readiness for Gutenberg
WordPress 5.0 is currently scheduled for release on Thursday, December 6th. This date has changed several times already, but I believe that this date will actually happen. The new content editor, Gutenberg, will be included in the release. The user interface has been considered stable for all of 8 days. I’ve talked a fair amount recently about the accessibility of Gutenberg and what the user experience will be like for users of assistive technology – but this post isn’t about […]
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