Tag: WordPress

On December 12th, 2013, WordPress 3.8 was released. With that release, the accessibility-ready tag was added to the WordPress theme repository. This addition was the result of over a year of planning and organization to make sure that we had buy-in from the WordPress theme review team, a set of guidelines to follow that the WordPress accessibility team could get behind, without creating demands on theme developers that would make conformance impractical. It’s been one year today since finding WordPress […]

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One of the most commonly requested pieces of functionality for My Calendar is the ability to manage registrations and ticketing for events. But adding that functionality as part of the calendar would make for an absurdly complex plug-in to offer a feature that not all users would actually need. So adding ticket handling to My Calendar was never really an option. But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t an important feature to offer! As of today, my new plug-in My […]

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Web accessibility guidelines stipulate that links need to provide context for meaning; but they also stipulate that link text needs to be unique when it leads to a new resource. Under Success Criterion 2.4.4, a read more link after an excerpt of the post would be meaningful, because the context provides information about what the link does. But when generating a list of links, “read more” links produce a long series of links with the same text and different destinations, […]

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I released version 2.3.10 of My Calendar today, which fixes a major XSS security issue. Please upgrade – regardless of your current version – as soon as possible! This issue goes back quite a long ways and applies to many versions of My Calendar. And if you’re on a version of My Calendar that it doesn’t impact, you should update anyway. Seriously. Thanks to Tim Hurley for responsibly reporting this issue!

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My Calendar is a bit of a monster plug-in. It’s not totally ridiculous – but there are a couple of features that I added years ago and have personally never actually used. Specifically, the user-specific features. You can configure settings in My Calendar that allow your users to set their location and timezone in their user profile, so that when they view My Calendar, they’ll automatically see events in their location and/or with times adjusted to their timezone. Inconveniently (and […]

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