Accessibility in WordPress Helsinki Meetup

In Tampere there have been active WordPress community and they have had their own WordPress Meetup several years. Now also Helsinki have our own Meetup group, everyone is more than welcome to join! We have very open atmosphere and we are definitely going to see lot’s of great topics.

WordPress Helsinki

Helsinki, FI
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We’re a group of local WordPress developers, designers, and publishers who get together to share our knowledge and experience, and to meet other WordPress users in the area. T…

Next Meetup

WordPress Helsinki Meetup

Wednesday, Sep 4, 2019, 5:30 PM
12 Attending

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I had a privilige to talk about How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

Presentation about accessibility

We talked about these topics:

  • What is accessibility?
  • Why should we care about accessibility?
  • Screen readers.
  • Skip to content links.
  • Keyboard accessibility.
  • Headings hierarchy.
  • ARIA rolse.
  • Repetitive text.
  • Using descriptive link text, avoiding title attribute.
  • Color contrast.
  • Controls.

Or how would you feel if your website would look like this.

Not all people see in the same way

Not all people see in the same way

Here is link to presentation, remember also check out code examples in Post Status article.