Cities

Making Free AccessibleWordPress Themes

Cities

There are 1,941 themes in the WordPress Theme Directoy

Five of them are accessible

What is Cities?Site owners are looking for accessible WordPress themes

There is a spectacular lack of accessible WordPress themes

A world-wide group of accessibility pactitioners are creating free accessible WordPress themes

Joseph Karr O’Connor

Invited expet W3C HTML5 Accessibility Taskforce

13 years accessibility experience

WordPress Accessibility Group

Cities: Making Free Accessible WordPress Themes

Montreal

Theme project managed by Rocio Alvaado @AccessibiliteWb -

bilingual small business theme.

Montreal

Will include the Quebec government standard SGQRI 008-01.

Issues that need specific attention for the back-end:✓ Proper headings

✓ Form field associations

✓ Fieldsets and legends

✓ Logical order of content

Montreal

Front-end:✓ Sufficient colour contast ✓ Proper headings ✓ Logical order of content ✓ WAI-ARIA for dynamic content ✓ Using elements semantically✓ Making non-textual content textual

✓ Navigating with TAB key with a visible outline

Montreal

Front-end:✓ Making links understandable out of context

✓ Making sure that blog widgets like archives, categories and recent posts are accessible when implemented

✓ Educate (commenting code to inform the developer of specific accessibility element)

Mumbai

Shilpi Kapoor @Shilpi_Kapoor of BarrierBreak is developing the

Mumbai theme.

Accessibility

“Accessibility is the degree to which a product, device, sevice, or environment is available to as many people as possible.” Cynthia Waddell

AccessibilityCities themes standards:

Section 508 Compliant

WCAG 2.0 Level AA Compliant

HTML5

W3C Validation

Commented code

Canbera

Government theme By Simon Pascal Klein @klepas a freelance web

designer with a passion for good typogaphy.

AccessibilityMoving Beyond Technical AccessibilityConstructing a POUR website:✓ Perceivable in multiple ways

✓ Opeable using various input methods

✓ Understandable by your readers

✓ Robust across opeating systems and platforms

Copenhagen

by Karen Mardhal @kmdk driven by the idea of inclusion and universal design - we're all in this together!

Accessibility

✓ Enable skip links

✓ Alternate text for pictures

✓ Captioning for video/audio

✓ Don’t use color for navigation

✓ Reading order is correct

✓ Avoid timeouts in forms

✓ Data tables and forms properly coded

Accessibility

✓ No-script elements for scripts

✓ Keyboard navigable

✓ Applications don’t override AT

✓ Visual focus indicator

✓ Don’t override user agent controls

✓ Sufficient color contast

✓ No quick motion

Sydney

Theme by Lisa Herrod @scenariogirl building

a business theme.

WP AccessibilityWordPress accessibility group –dedicated to improving accessibility in core

Join at Make WordPress Accessible

Tweeting at @WPAccessibility

D.C.

Team managed by David Kennedy @DavidAKennedy - theme for non-

profits and government.

WP Accessibility

✓ Mel Pedley

✓ Gaham Armfield

✓ Cyndy Otty

✓ Joe Dolson

✓ Amanda Rush @cswordpress

✓ Sharon Austin @_Redd

✓ Amy Hendrix @sabreuse

✓ Karl Groves@karlgroves

✓ Joseph Karr O'Connor

WP AccessibilityWordPress theme review guidelines for accessibility are in daft mode.

Internet relay chat, Wednesdays, 19:00 UTC, #wordpress-ui, sever irc.freenode.net or via freenode web chat.

Toronto

Theme project managed by Jennison Asuncion @Jennison.

Accessibility Plugins

WP Accessibility by Joe Dolson✓ Remove redundant title attributes from page lists, categoy lists, and archive menus.

✓ Enable skip links with WebKit suppot by enqueuing JavaScript suppot for moving keyboard focus.

✓ Add skip links with user-defined targets. (Customizable targets and appeaance.)

Accessibility Plugins

WP Accessibility by Joe Dolson ✓ Add language and text direction to your HTML attribute

✓ Remove the target attribute from links.

✓ Force a search page error when a search is made with an empty text string. (If your theme has a search.php template.)

✓ Remove tabindex from elements that are focusable.

Nashville

Theme by Anna Belle Leiserson for congregations (churches,

temples, mosques etc.)

Accessibility Plugins

WP Accessibility by Joe Dolson✓ Strip title attributes from images inseted into content.

✓ Add an outline to the keyboard focus state for focusable elements.

✓ Add post titles to standard "read more" links.#uxdrinkinggame If someone says all the links should just say, "read more..." drink

Accessibility Plugins

WP Accessibility by Joe Dolson ✓ Add a toolbar toggling between high contast, large print, and desatuated (gayscale) views of your theme.

✓ Fix cetain accessibility issues in the WordPress admin styles

✓ Show the color contast between two provided hexadecimal color values.

Accessibility Plugins

Accessibility plugins by Joe Dolson:My Calendar

WP to Twitter

WP Accessibility

BotSmasher

Boston

Theme project managed by Char James-Tanny @CharJTF -

a restauant theme.

Ottawa

Theme project by Simply Accessible managed by Elle McPherson

@nethermind - education theme.

Accessibility Widgets

wpacc-accessible-twitter-feed by Rian Rietveld

"Plugin and theme developers should be required to show their work to their mother or gandmother, maybe then they'd discover, for example, that a grey site with grey chaacters is pretty hard to read when you're older."

Accessibility Widgets

wpacc-accessible-twitter-feed by Rian Rietveld✓ Stand alone widget✓ Included function genesis_tweet_linkify, renamed it wp_accessible_tweet_linkify✓ Removed target is _blank for links, so they don't open in a new window

New York

Theme project managed by Patik Patel @ppatel of EZFire

will be a business theme.

Accessibility Widgets

wpacc-accessible-twitter-feed by Rian Rietveld✓ Removed title attribute in links (messes up screen reader output)

✓ Removed links on hashtags to prevent an overload of links for a tweet

✓ Removed the timestamp/link to prevent an overload of links for a tweet

Accessibility Widgets

wpacc-accessible-twitter-feed by Rian Rietveld✓ Removed inline style for font-size

✓ Included .pot file and dutch .po/.mo files

Twin Cities

Theme project managed by Joe Dolson @joedolson - Joe is a driving

force for WordPress accessibility.

Accessible Content

✓ Use "Alternate Text" field when uploading images, describe the intent of the image.

✓ Don't use "Read More" links, describe destination: Read More about Cities.

✓ Links: don't use "Open link in new window/tab" check box.

Accessible Content

✓ Use headings to sum up paagaphs and give structure.

✓ Use lists if content is a list.

✓ Adding video/sound? Don't autostat!

✓ Make sure video is Closed Captioned and provide a tanscript for audio.

Rio De Janeiro

Theme project managed by Ana Isabel Paaguay

@projetoinclusiv

São Paulo

Theme project managed by Ana Isabel Paaguay

@projetoinclusiv

Augusta Georgia

Theme by Amanda Rush @cswordpress

Manchester UK

Theme by Helen Wallwoth @AccessibleGeeks

Los Angeles

Theme project managed by Natalie MacLees

CreditsFree Blurred Backgrounds by Timothy Whalin @TimothyWhalin

Images from Flickr via HaikuDeck for iPad

Composed in Keynote, posted to Slideshare, available in a tanscript.

This presentation: http://bit.ly/Cities-WordCamp-Montreal-2013