Accessibility and creating new WordPress site

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    riikka81 · Member ·

    Hi!

     I am Riikka and I study at Haaga-Halia University of applied sciences
     in Helsinki, Finland.

    I am currently writing my thesis regarding accessibility of free online blog environments and during this process I also reviewed WordPress.com. Sadly the result was, that WordPress.com is not accessible by blind people when creating a website.

    The issue is following:
    When creating new WordPress site, and it is time to choose the address of your wordpress site, you can write the name of the wordpress site. At that point it gives you options for the addresses. These addresses can not be accessed with tab key. As it is not possible to choose the address of the Wordpress site with the tab key, the site is not accessible for the blind.

    I hope someone could take a look of this and find solution for this issue.
    You can find more information about accessibility requirements from Web Content Accessibility Guidelines by
    W3. (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/)

     Best regards,
     Riikka

  • staff-zinnia · Staff ·

    Hi Riikka –

    Thanks for writing to us. I’m going to take a look at this and I’ll report back.

  • staff-zinnia · Staff ·

    Are you encountering this through use of a screen reader? Can you share a little bit more, or even grab a screen shot?

    Is the problem with the new editor (blue and white) or the classic, wp-admin (black and white) ?

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