Hi Char -
There's a WordPress accessibility group actively working on improving the
accessibility of WordPress and this is a jumping-off point to the pretty
extensive documentation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Accessibility.
Katherine
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Char Easter <ceaster@seattletimes.com>
wrote:
> Hello, Has there been discussion on accessibility in WordPress?
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> Here are a few things I learned from my tests for Alt attributes, but
> would love to know more about all accessibility WP characteristics.
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> 1. Through the CMS, you cannot enter code, so you can’t add a null
> alt (alt=""). We have captions for most our images, so leaving the Alt Text
> field blank because the screen reader is reading the Caption and a caption
> and alt text would be overload.
>
> 2. You can add the alt attribute via the code if the images were
> added in the code
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> 3. If images were entered outside the CMS (via the page code),
> however, you cannot add alt attribute via the CMS field.
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> 4. Screenreaders do not read the filename (thankfully)
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> Thanks,
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> *Char Easter*
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> User Experience Designer
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> w: 206.464.2945
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> c: 206.779.2427
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> ceaster@seattletimes.com
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