{"id":247757,"date":"2015-02-17T12:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T12:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.london.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=247757"},"modified":"2015-04-13T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:59:54","slug":"themes-plugins-and-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/session\/themes-plugins-and-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Themes, Plugins and Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2015.london.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/#wcorg-speaker-graham-armfield\">Graham Armfield<\/a><br \/>\nSunday 22nd March<br \/>\n4:30pm<br \/>\nTrack 1: The Rocket<\/p>\n<p>Slides:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/coolfields\/themes-plugins-and-accessaccessibilitywcldnmarch2015\"> http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/coolfields\/themes-plugins-and-accessaccessibilitywcldnmarch2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the recent WordPress accessibility initiatives has been the introduction of the &#8216;accessibility-ready&#8217; tag for theme authors who wish to submit themes to the WordPress repository. The tag is used to indicate that a theme contains the best practices in web accessibility, and can form the basis of an accessible WordPress website.<\/p>\n<p>But uptake has been slow.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation looks at what you need to do to get your themes up to the &#8216;accessibility-ready&#8217; standard &#8211; whether or not you intend to submit them to the repository. It&#8217;s not hard to do, and the benefits can be enormous for many, many people.<\/p>\n<p>I will also be looking at whether it&#8217;s worth following the &#8216;accessibility-ready&#8217; steps for plugins too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Armfield Sunday 22nd March 4:30pm Track 1: The Rocket Slides: http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/coolfields\/themes-plugins-and-accessaccessibilitywcldnmarch2015 One of the recent WordPress accessibility initiatives has been the introduction of the &#8216;accessibility-ready&#8217; tag for theme authors who wish to submit themes to the WordPress repository. The tag is used to indicate that a theme contains the best practices in web accessibility, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/session\/themes-plugins-and-accessibility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Themes, Plugins and Accessibility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6029509,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1427041800,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[247591],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[13411],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-247757","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-1"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lcxU-12s5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"March 22, 2015","time":"4:30 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"247591","slug":"graham-armfield","name":"Graham Armfield","link":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/graham-armfield\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/247757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/247757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249170,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/247757\/revisions\/249170"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/247591"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/grahamarmfield"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=247757"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=247757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}