I’m approaching this story from the starting assumption that accessibility overlays are a problem. So I’m not going to spend time on arguments for or against the technology. I’m also making the assumption that we all agree that the tool itself must be accessible, and won’t discuss that question here. I am interested in one key question: where do we draw the line between a potentially useful tool and an evil overlay? What are the characteristics that make an overlay […]
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Why WordPress Themes Require Underlines on Links
Jeff Chandler posted a link in the Post Status Slack yesterday leading to an article complaining about the underlined link requirement for WordPress themes. It’s an interesting read, and it makes some good points about what kinds of link decorations can pass the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and be fundamentally more interesting than an underline. If you read Nick Hamze’s article, I recommend doing it on a mobile device; the readability on desktop is more than a little bit iffy. […]
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What is it about software maintenance that makes it interesting? Why should we love software maintenance in open source software?
Continue reading “Deep down, I love maintenance” »WP Accessibility 2.2.0 Released
WP Accessibility 2.2.0 includes one major new feature and one substantial change. New Feature: Video Pausing The major new feature is an option that will inject a play/pause button on autoplaying videos that don’t have controls and that will automatically pause those videos if the prefers-reduced-motion flag is detected. There are many cases this could cover, but one of the most significant is usage of the WordPress “cover” block with a featured video. This embeds the video without controls, which […]
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After taking over Able Player, I received feedback from various sources about the kinds of problems people are having with the accessible media player. While there are miscellaneous observations of bugs and support gaps, the majority of comments were actually about using the player. These aren’t really issues with the JavaScript package itself; they’re about implementation. The Drupal plugin already interfaces with Drupal’s media library. But the WordPress plugin was considerably less powerful – it could only implement Able Player […]
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