Is wordpress ADA compliant?

  • Hello,

    I’m about to begin a project for a small college and was checking into wordpress as a possible cms. One of the main requirements for this project is that the site is (100%?)ADA compliant. This generally means that people with hearing and vision problems can still have complete access to the content of the site. Can wordpress handle this without too much hacking? Does PHP present any problems to the various text readers and other tools that are used?

    Thanks in advance.

    Kurt

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  • I think it’s less a question of WordPress, and more a question of the WordPress theme being ADA compliant.

    I’m sure the flashier (i.e. AJAX and javascript in general) themes will be more troublesome for readers to handle, but a minimalistic theme should work fine.

    Keep in mind, PHP doesn’t play any part in the equation. The reader is still just handling HTML, regardless of backend language.

    Stay away from iframe and flash just to be on the safe side. And you can download firefox screenreader extension to constantly test your site content to see how the real screenreaders will read your site content.

    And of course, keep the code-to-content ratio low in your source.

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