If you aren’t familiar with it, WordPress publishes a showcase featuring prominent sites that have been built using WordPress. The goal of the showcase, as stated in the submissions page, is to “show the world what can be done with WordPress and help demonstrate the tremendous capabilities it has as a publishing platform.” This may shock you, but there are no accessibility criteria for selection. I know – I just shook your world. I’ve just finished doing a *very* quick […]
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The posts they are a changin’ – Gutenberg, Blocks, and the future of WordPress
In a recent email, I wrote this paragraph (paraphrased because it’s out of context): “Accessible development requires a high level of distrust for the tools you’re using to build a site, and an operational assumption that unless you have reviewed the output of a tool, you should assume it’s not accessible. This is a frustratingly adversarial method of interacting with software, but once you’ve worked through the process of assessing what your tools do systematically, you will have a good […]
Continue reading “The posts they are a changin’ – Gutenberg, Blocks, and the future of WordPress” »Don’t judge progress by the number of open issues
Recently, I’ve seen more than one person in the accessibility community sharing Tweets about the number of accessibility issues in the Gutenberg repository. The increase in issues over the last few years is presented to show that WordPress is not considering accessibility. Specifically, I’m referring to comments by Adrian Roselli & Dennis Lembree: There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize the accessibility of Gutenberg. Progress on accessibility has been inconsistent at best. This is heavily influenced by the lack […]
Continue reading “Don’t judge progress by the number of open issues” »Notes on the WordPress Classic Editor plugin
I’ve observed a lot of conversations about how long WordPress will continue to support the Classic Editor plug-in. It’s something that people seem highly passionate and concerned about – and I haven’t really understood why. In the course of a recent conversation, I learned the reason: people were not aware that the Classic Editor is still part of core. The Classic Editor Plugin does not contain the editor Yes, that’s right. The classic editor plugin offers controls allowing users to […]
Continue reading “Notes on the WordPress Classic Editor plugin” »AccessiBe & the fake WordPress plug-in reviews
On Tuesday, February 16th, I reported the presence of fake plug-in reviews on AccessiBe’s pretend-to-fix-accessibility plug-in. Now, the implication of a large number of 4 and 5 star reviews that show clear evidence of being faked is that they’ve been purchased by the plug-in author in question – but, of course, that’s not a provable statement using the information I have. However, the evidence of the fake reviews is pretty damning. At the time I reported the reviews, AccessiBe showed […]
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