[wp-hackers] Accessibility of WP back end

Lynne Pope lynne.pope at gmail.com
Sun May 3 01:25:37 GMT 2009


2009/5/2 Jennifer Hodgdon <yahgrp at poplarware.com>

> That is good to know. Jeremy: I have read that some of the dynamic update
> things could be difficult for (blind) screen reader users. How does your
> blind author like the Tags section, when he adds a tag and it appears? Can
> he use the X buttons to delete the tags?
>
> In any case, blindness is not the only issue. From the introduction to the
> WCAG guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/):


Note: WCAG 2.0 is the current version. It can be found here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
It contains some significant changes from WCAG 1.0 and also addresses some
issues where WCAG 1.0 was not worded correctly (which meant it was being
misinterpreted).

Lynne


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