There you are, sitting with an open code editor, ready to bake new features into your WordPress theme, but something’s stopping you: You’re not sure what accessibility features you need to worry about as you whip up your markup.
Sina Bahram, president of Prime Access Consulting, and Pattie Reaves, senior user experience developer at Alley Interactive, will walk through common patterns in WordPress sites for publishers — navigation, archives, and posts — and give you clear, easy-to-reproduce recipes for accessible sites that you can take back to your own local development “kitchen.”
Although you will get the best results by integrating accessibility into the development process when “baking” from scratch, it’s never too late to spice up your site’s accessibility. We’ll also discuss automated tools for identifying potential accessibility problems, and common solutions to technical and editorial accessibility issues. Finally, we’ll talk about the future of WordPress and how to be smart about upgrading to Gutenberg to maintain accessibility.