I am a blind web developer trying to use your excellent but complicated plugin. You need to put attention to accessibility and the minimum standards of Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Itms that need fixing:
– TabIndex the rows and columns for Roles, Access Policies and any other dynamic tables you display
– Add allt content for action items.
– Add Keyboard press Javascript action to your checkboxes, so people can activate them by keyboard as well as mouse
– Use Aria for all form items, and in particular, for loader gifs so the user knows a page is updating.
– Using alt tags, let users know what particular action is occurring
– It appears that the list of assignees are not keyboard-reachable. This column needs to be tabindexed
In your navigation, have a clear delineation between action menu items and your documentation/help sreas
Currently, I can only manage AAM with the assistance of a person who can see, but are overwhelmed by this highly-technical plugin. That creates frustration for us, and also debilitates my ability to get critical security setup.
Thank you.
]]>If I understand this correctly, the functions file loads in the page so that if one of the “Displayed File Information” checkboxes are selected in the settings page, the appropriate modal window will pop up and display information (whatever it is).
The problem is that the software we are using to do the ADA/Section 508 compliance scan displays an error (this happens on several pages, and this is only one example):
The ARIA-LABELLEDBY attribute references a non-existent element ID.
One of these IDs wasn’t found: mdocs-ratings
Line 413 WCAG 2.0 A F68 Section 508 (2017) A F68 Section 508 (2000) 1194.22 (n)
Is there a way to program around this, so that if the option isn’t selected in the settings, that a particular modal function won’t load on the page at all? That would eliminate the error in finding code that has no values.
Please let me know if you have any questions about my ramblings. Thank you for your assistance!
]]>I guess I’m trying to say that the developers who setup oembed are way smarter than I am, so I’m betting it’s not an issue – but need to find out.
Anyone know?
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]]>I’ve been working on some accessible designs for a government client, and I’ve noticed that the WordPress admin pages, the www.remarpro.com theme, and many wordpress themes do not have sufficient color contrast to meet WAI guidelines.
Probably not a big deal with individual themes, but the admin theme is an issue for all. I can’t seem to find a WordPress.com theme that passes muster. (Not that that matters here.)
If you want to see what I’m talking about, check it out with the Juicy Studio Accessibility toolbar:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9108
]]>I work for a state university that is considering WordPress Mu as a CMS for our Web site. One thing that is very important to us as a state university is adhering to section 508 guidelines for Web accessibility, and we’re running into a problem with WPMU and image alt tags.
Currently, WordPress is set up such that the Title or Caption of an image is inserted as the alternative text. The Title is a required field, so technically, every image always has alternate text.
This would be fine, except the title of the image defaults to the file name upon upload. The image file name is most often not meaningful (ie. “DSCN1899” vs. “This is a photo of Bob and Sally on their camping trip”) and therefore not accessible.
What we’d like to do is require users to re-enter the image title upon uploading it–in other words, we don’t want the Title field to auto-fill with the image file name–so they are forced to consider using meaningful text to describe the image before saving it to the database.
I know this would probably have to be done with a hack, but so far myself and another programmer have not been able to find the file or source code to do this. We’ve managed to customize the rest of the system to suit our needs, but this accessibility issue keeps tripping us up.
Does anyone know where we’d start? Or if someone else has already developed a plugin to do something similar? Or are we out of luck entirely?
If this isn’t in the right place, please let me know, and thanks for any insight you can offer!
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