Graham Armfield

Thanks Jonathan, assume this is the place to raise issues: https://github.com/godaddy-wordpress/coblocks/issues

It stripped out the HTML, but hopefully you get the message.

Excellent, thanks.

Confirming that the solution outlined by rmeck above does fix the issue.

It’s not a great situation though.

Had a similar problem with thumbnails on one of my sliders. I noticed that the list items containing the thumbnails are given a fixed height which is not always enough to accommodate the full thumbnail.

To fix this I had to put an override piece of CSS in my stylesheet file:

.cycloneslider-thumbnails li {
   height:auto !important;
}

You might want to try that.

This is the one I normally use:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/maintenance-mode/

I had the same problem and I think I’ve solved it. Try this:

1. Go to WP Super Cache Settings page and choose the Advanced tab.
2. Move down the page and find the Accepted Filenames & Rejected URIs section. After the checkboxes and accompanying save button there is a textarea (just beneath the ‘Add here strings…’ paragraph).
3. Put your new login string into the textarea and press the ‘Save Strings’ button.
4. Then go to the Easy tab within the Cache plugin settings, and delete the current cache – use the Delete Cache button.

Doing all that should get rid of the error message. At least it did for me.

You might also give this plugin a go:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/accessible-dropdown-menus/

It’s specifically designed to fix the issue that you describe. It should work with the default themes, and maybe will work with many other newer WordPress themes.

@esmi – Have emailed you.

@esmi – Re your suggestion to join the discussion at https://make.www.ads-software.com/accessibility/, please can I ask how we can do that since I can find no way of adding a new post to that forum? I’ve tried in both Chrome and Firefox.

You’ll perhaps recognise my login as having replied to a few posts at make.www.ads-software.com/accessibility (as I know you have) but since Jane curtailed comments on anything older than 14 days I appear to be unable to contribute further there at the moment.

I am keen to help make WordPress more accessible and have contributed some ideas at the Core Dev Team Meetup Q&A page. But I feel that the dialogue is a bit fragmented at the moment.

If you could help I’d be most grateful.

Graham

Accessibility Requests – Part 2 – Back End:

I expect everyone who is sighted and who uses a mouse is fine with the back end so my thoughts concern those who are blind (using screen readers), and those who are sighted but may use a keyboard (or a similar device) to navigate their way around web pages and apps. I have tried a few admin screens using just a keyboard and NVDA screen reader. I’ve listed the items in the order that I came across them – not order of importance.

1. A skip link to the main content at the top of the admin pages would be really useful since there are many links on every page before you get to the real business for each page. This link should either be visible all the time or become visible when it gets focus – as with twentyeleven theme. A link back up to the start of the main nav bar would be useful too – positioned near the end of content.
2. Keyboard focus must be clearly visible at all times.
3. All input fields should have explicitly linked labels which explain the purpose of the input. Examples of those that haven’t got label – a) Search pages text box b) The checkboxes on the table containing posts/pages etc. These labels could be hidden from sighted users.
4. Where you have radio buttons such as in the screen options panel the use of <fieldset> and <lefend> helps to set the context for screen reader users. <fieldset> and <lefend> would also be useful on the “Show on screen” options within screen options.
5. Screen options link reveals panel which is above current cursor on page. Blind users will therefore possibly not be aware of it. Some hidden text could warn screen reader users that they need to tab back up to see the options. Alternatively you could force focus into the first input within the panel.
6. In the Right Now section of the Dashboard the links to posts, pages etc are separate links from the number of each item. This leads to a series of meaningless numeric links for screen reader users. Can the number and the type of content not be combined into a single link?
7. In the Pages screen (with the big table of pages) the column titles activate a sort. For screen reader users’ benefit the link should state that.
8. Actually creating and editing a page is tricky using keyboard only and listening to NVDA:

• Once you’re into the rich text area the tab key no longer appears to work. So it’s not clear how to get out of the rich text editor. Using the help available at ALT+0 doesn’t actually help with that either.
• It’s not clear how I get to the controls to save as draft or publish the page.
• It’s not clear how I would access the upload media dialogue once in the rich text editor as that seems not to be part of the toolbar.

All the instructions that are provided for screen reader users need to be clearly visible somehow for sighted keyboard users – perhaps a plainly visible Accessibility Help link at the top of each page?

• Cheated and reloaded the page so I could access the media uploader. Managed to tab to it but when the link is actioned and the dialogue panel is opened the focus is not moved into the panel which I would expect. This would make it very hard for those using a keyboard to easily add media to their posts and pages.

I’ve run out of time now but I’ll try to do some more investigation next week.

Graham

Accessibility Requests – Part 1 – Front End:

1) Please can twentyten and twentyeleven be amended to enable flyout menus to be keyboard accessible. Without that, sub-pages on some sites might be impossible to get to for blind users and those who realy on keyboard interaction.

When I create my own themes I use the technique documented here: https://blakehaswell.com/lab/dropdown/deux/ – it’s simple and it works.

2) Please ensure in both those themes that the keyboard focus is always plainly visible – ideally the same as any hover changes.

3) Continue Reading links in blog page, search results, archives etc – should include page/post title to give the links the full context. This would help screen reader users who may get list of links on a page to help them navigate. If required the title part could be hidden from sighted users by using your ‘screen-reader-text’ class.

Some admin area thoughts shortly.

Echo the comments about improved accessibility.

I’m guessing you’ll need more than that so will take a bit of time to analyse 3.3 and then post some suggestions.

It’s good to open up for thoughts now – accessibility should always been designed in, not just tacked on at the end.

Thanks

It’s a fresh install running on XAMPP on Windows 7. I have no plugins apart from the two default ones and neither are activated.

The ‘Allow Trackbacks…’ checkbox works as expected. And I can save content changes normally.

I first noticed the issue on Firefox 8.0.1 but the same is true on Chrome 15.0.874.121 m – but wouldn’t have expected the browser to be affecting it.

Have just tried again to double check and I still have the issue.

@mmuro thanks for getting back…

The labels are present for each of the input fields that make up the address block but they are not linked to the input fields explicitly using the id of the input field. You have done this explicit linkage in other places – eg the email address field.

Screen readers use the labels to prompt for the input.

A similar issue concerns the time fields where the labels are not explicitly linked. You have a further problem here in that you have multiple inputs with the same id.

I notice that the fieldsets generated have no accompanying legend tag. The legend is another useful accessibility feature which helps screen readers set the context for a group of input fields.

Graham