Coolfields Consulting Archive for the ‘Technical Tips’ Category
Building Accessible WordPress Themes – Featured Images
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If you’re pulling featured images into your WordPress theme, are you setting the alternate text for the image correctly? Let me show you how to get it right.
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How to Build an Accessible WordPress Theme
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A write-up of key points from my presentation at WordCamp London 2019 consisting of a series of ‘tips and tricks’ for building accessible WordPress themes.
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Accessibility Checklist
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This accessibility checklist was created to accompany my presentation entitled ‘How to Build an Accessible WordPress Theme’ for WordCamp London 2019 – held on 5th – 7th April 2019. The checklist contains a reminder of all the little tips and tricks that can make a theme more accessible. There’s advice for content authors/editors too.
Text for Screen Readers Only (Updated)
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Blind visitors to your site may well be using a screen reader, or a braille reader. There are a number of places on a web page where extra text would sometimes be useful for blind users to ensure that the full meaning of the content is apparent. This post shows you how to do that.
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A possible ARIA solution to improve accessibility of the WordPress Add Media Panel
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The Add Media functionality was introduced into WordPress with version 3.5. Unfortunately it was completely inaccessible to anyone who couldn’t use a mouse. This post explains the main issues and looks at a pragmatic ARIA fix that could help solve some of the issues.
Simple Usability Improvements for your WordPress Theme
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Summary of presentation I gave to WordPress London. Demonstrates simple usability enhancements for WordPress themes – in code and using plugins.
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Accessible Forms – Grouping Elements Together With Fieldset
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The fieldset HTML element (and its accompanying legend element) can be used to group any set of input fields and brings useful accessibility benefits.
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Accessible Forms – Grouping Options With Optgroup
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The optgroup HTML tag is a grouping element used with a list of options in a select (or dropdown) input field. It provides a good usability feature but currently little for accessibility.
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Accessible Forms – Selects or Dropdowns
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The Select (or Dropdown) input field enables a user of a web form to make a selection from a list of items. This post looks at the best practices for using selects accessibly and pitfalls to avoid.
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Accessible Forms – Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
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Checkboxes and radio buttons both allow users to choose from a list of items. But they both can have implications for web form accessibility if they’re not used correctly.
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