Checkboxes Inaccessible to Sight-impaired Who Use Screen readers

  • Hello, Will. Just FYI, because the checkboxes you use are not standard checkboxes, they don’t expose their state to a screen reader & are therefore not accessible to those w/sight-impairments. As you may know, WordPress is committed to being accessible at core to WCAG 2.x AA conformance level. It would be a good thing if those who write plugins would also commit to that level. In your case, it’s an easy fix–the original Stop Spammers plugin actually incorporated accessible checkboxes, & all you’d need to do is use them instead.

    I hope you’ll give some thought to doing this, because at this point, a screenreader user can’t tell whether checkboxes in your options are on or off. Thank you for your attention.

    It’s not particularly relevant to the situation at hand, but I’m running both the latest version of WordPress & your plugin. Also, I’ve been a member of the WordPress community since 2010 & hold a contributor badge on these forums, which is merely to say this is not a newby mistake. If requested, I’d be happy to supply some resources regarding accessible coding. Thanks again.

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  • Plugin Author willjenkins

    (@willjenkins)

    Thanks Jackie,

    I have to think about this. I think, perhaps, that what I need to do is have an alt parameter on the option. I don’t want to change too much, and this sounds simple.

    I will check then net for acceptable solutions.

    Keith

    Thread Starter abletec

    (@abletec)

    Well, Keith, as I said, the original plugin had accessible checkboxes. So you already know how to do that, it appears. I’m not sure in this case that research is required. The original plugin had that nailed down quite well. All you need do, I’d think is reincorporate the relevant part of the UI.

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