Accessibility

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

Pattern library for accessible WordPress themes

Brian Krogsgard

February 23, 2015

Back in January, a team was formed to create a pattern library for accessible WordPress themes. They stated their goals for the new pattern library: The goals are simple: Become a central resource for WordPress theme developers to learn about…

You forgot about user experience

Brian Krogsgard

June 27, 2014

Design

Web professionals talk a lot about the importance of writing great code. We should talk even more about providing great user experiences for websites and products we build. Code quality is really important. We should have standards, and utilize them…

Keep an eye on accessibility in your projects

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2014

Design

For one of the first projects I ever worked on in an agency setting, we had a monster list of items to either finish, ask about, or respond to. A classic punch list. So, I was given this list in…

Accessibility objectives for WordPress – initial thoughts

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

WordPress News

Members of the Make WordPress Accessibility group have created an initial set of accessibility objectives for WordPress. Ultimately, in order to support Matt Mullenweg’s view on the democratization of the web by web-related software, the group wants as many WordPress…