1. Compliance is a work in progress
WordPress and ATAG
Compliance is a work in progress

2. What does ATAG require? An accessible user interface
The ability to create accessible content
Promotion and integration of accessible content creation

3. An Accessible User Interface
Constantly improving
Committed to meeting WCAG 2.0 requirements
But it's a long way to go...

4. Excluding WCAG 2.0, where does WordPress stand with ATAG?

5. A.2 Editing Views Are Perceivable

6. A.2.1 Make alternative content available to authors
✅ Image alternative text
✓ Video captions: very difficult to manage
⛔ No support for audio description
⛔ No support for programmatically associated transcripts of audio/video

7. A.2.2 Editing view presentation can be programmatically determined
✅ Well, we think so...
⛔ ...but without any systematic testing.

8. A.3 Editing Views Are Operable

9. A.3.1 Provide keyboard access to authoring features
✅ All aspects of the admin are accessible via the keyboard.
✓ Well, almost all.
⛔ But some require keyboard shortcuts that may be hard to discover.

10. A.3.2 Provide authors with enough time
✅ WordPress has no time limitations.

11. A.3.3 Help authors avoid flashing that could cause seizures
✅ Videos loaded in the editor do not play automatically.
⛔ Animated GIF images do play.

12. A.3.4 Enhance navigation and editing via content structure
✅ Possible to discover the content structure for context
⛔ No ability to navigate via the content structure in the editor.

13. A.3.5 Provide text search of the content
⛔ No method to search content within the visual editor
✅ All page content searchable within text editor using the browser's search feature

14. A.3.6 Manage preference settings
✅ Preferences to change look & options in admin
⛔ No ability to modify the look and feel of the editor beyond text/visual

15. A.3.7 Ensure previews are at least as accessible as in-market user agents
✅ Web-based previews in the browser.

16. A.4 Editing Views Are Understandable

17. A.4.1 Help authors avoid and correct mistakes
✅ WordPress revisions help restore main content;
⛔ Content outside the editor not always stored.
⛔ Settings are not reversible

18. A.4.2 Document the user interface, including all accessibility features
✅ WordPress has extensive in-page documentation.
⛔ Do you know where it is?
⛔ Some complex features have minimal documentation.

19. B.1 Fully automatic processes create accessible content

20. B.1.2 Ensure that accessibility information is preserved
⛔ Editor strips some HTML and attributes, including ARIA attributes.

21. B.2 Authors are supported in creating accessible content

22. B.2.1 Ensure that accessible content production is possible
✅ It is.
⛔ No tools to assist with tabular data
⛔ No tools to assist with forms

23. B.2.2 Guide authors to create accessible content
⛔ Alt attributes underexplained, underemphasized, frequently invalid
⛔ Media captions difficult to use
⛔ Hands-off approach to complex data

24. B.2.3 Assist authors with managing alternative content for non-text content
✅ Alt attributes are editable, both in library and independently in editor.
⛔ Captions not editable

25. B.2.4 Assist authors with accessible templates
✅ "accessible" themes are available
⛔ What constitutes an accessible theme is...complicated

26. B.2.5 Assist authors with accessible pre-authored content
✅ WordPress does not provide any pre- authored content.

27. B.3 Authors are supported in improving the accessibility of existing content

28. B.3.1 Assist authors in checking for accessibility problems
⛔ Nope. Nothing.
You can use Access Monitor to help!

29. B.3.2 Assist authors in repairing accessibility problems
⛔ Nope. Nothing.
You can use Access Monitor to help!

30. B.4 Authoring tools promote and integrate their accessibility features

31. B.4.1 Ensure the availability of features that support the production of accessible content
✅ Accessibility features are enabled by default, and there is no option to disable them.
⛔ There aren't a lot of accessibility features...

32. B.4.2 Ensure that documentation promotes the production of accessible content
⛔ It doesn't, for the most part, mention accessibility at all.

33. Overall? ✅ 16 ⛔ 24

34. Some plugins that can help:
WP Accessibility accessibility/
Access Monitor monitor/
Accessible Video Library

35. Joe Dolson // joe@joedolson.com // https://www.joedolson.com
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