On Januari 7, 2013 StudioPress released an update for the Genesis Framework. I love this framework. It’s flexible, well organized , with a lot of extra hooks and filters and with an excellent support and a large community. It takes work to build an accessible theme using this framework, and it would be perfect if Genesis was WCAG 2.0 compliant out of the box….
Read more about: Genesis 1.9.1, an accessibility review
Genesis 1.9.1, an accessibility review
Switching colour and font size schemes with CSS and cookies in WordPress
How to set up a switch to a bigger or smaller font or to change the colour display of a web page in WordPress into black/grey/white. This is not a plugin, but a way to set up the options in the funtions.php and style.css of your WordPress (child) theme. Wat do you need The main…
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Release version 0.2 of the Accessible Genesis Child Theme
Update 0.2 of my Accessible Genesis Child Theme is now available for download at RRWD’s GitHub.
Accessible Captcha Plugin
A Captcha allows you to protect your website from spam. Generally CAPTCHA are created by a distorted picture punctuation without (obviously) adding an alt text. This is a problem for users of screen readers. See also Guideline 1.1 of WGAC 2.0: Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms…
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Accessible child theme for the Genesis Framework
First: I love the Genesis framework from StudioPress. It’s structured, flexible, user friendly and saves a lot of time developing themes. And the price is very reasonable for such a good framework. But: It needs some changes to improve accessibility.
Some accessibility changes on the WordPress child theme Twenty Eleven
To improve the accessibility of the WordPress child theme Twenty Eleven some changes where necessary, like the semantics of the headings, the colors, a “return to the top” link.
Bloggers about WordPress accessibility
What developers and users of WordPress who researched accessibility have to say: