WordPress: Accessibility (2019)

Course details

Everybody deserves the opportunity to experience your website. Making your content, themes, and navigation accessible helps everyone—users with disabilities, visitors who find your site through search engine results, and anyone else who wants a great user experience. This course helps you make sure your website meets modern accessibility standards. You can learn how to use the power of WordPress to quickly build a beautiful website that can be used by people with different types of abilities. Author Joe Dolson provides a broad introduction to accessibility and then focuses on practical steps to ensure your WordPress themes, plugins, and content are accessible and usable to all. He also shows how to test your site to make sure it meets the most current accessibility standards.

Learning objectives
Accessibility concepts
Creating accessible content
WordPress core accessibility features
Creating more accessible themes
Creating more accessible plugins
Using accessibility plugins
Interacting with forms
Testing site accessibility

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Accessibility in WordPress
02 - What you should know

1. What Is Web Accessibility

03 - Web accessibility concepts
04 - Accessibility and your business
05 - Assistive technology overview

2. Accessibility and WordPress

06 - Creating accessible content
07 - Understanding accessibility in WordPress
08 - Accessible core - What WordPress provides
09 - Accessible interfaces - What WordPress themes control
10 - Accessible interfaces - What WordPress plugins control

3. Accessibility in Your Theme

11 - Examining design and color contrast
12 - Constructing accessible navigation
13 - Perceivable images and icons
14 - Page architecture and HTML semantics
15 - Page builder plugins
16 - Testing page builders

4. Plugin Accessibility

17 - WordPress plugins can do anything
18 - ARIA, Ajax, and your website
19 - Interacting with forms and their responses
20 - How WordPress plugins impact accessibility
21 - Example - WordPress plugins for accessibility

5. Authoring Accessible Content

22 - What is accessible content
23 - Using audio and video
24 - Organizing your content on the page
25 - Getting help from the block editor
26 - Getting help from the Classic Editor

6. Testing in WordPress

27 - Automated and manual accessibility testing
28 - Testing accessibility with WAVE by WebAIM
29 - Testing accessibility with Tenon.io
30 - Testing accessibility using axe by Deque
31 - Using bookmarklets for quick assessments

Conclusion

32 - Next steps

WordPress: Accessibility (2019)

Authors

Joe Dolson