Accessibility status

[Belinda]

Hi There,

Found an old post that said you were looking at making your plugin accessibility compliant.

I need WCAG 2.0 AA, looks like lots of errors with the field and labels, especially for the community submission form.

How’s it all going and do you have any news?

Many Thanks,

Belinda

[Geoff]

Hi Belinda,

Great question! Accessibility has indeed been an increasing priority for us and the good news is that we’re making huge strides in that area.

In fact, our 4.4 release will introduce the biggest batch of improvements to date. Our most current automated test of the release passed WCAG 2.0 AA which is super encouraging. We also know that automated tests are not the final word when testing for accessibility, but it’s a huge first step.

The biggest hurdle at the moment are some of the third-party code libraries that The Events Calendar relies on. Those are preventing us from being 100% of where we want to be, but we have been reaching out to those vendors and most of them are willing to work with us and we’re hopeful that we’ll be able to release even more improvements in future releases from there as a result.

I also heard chatter that we’re planning to write an updated blog post on the accessibility improvements in 4.4 when they have been released, so definitely stay tuned for more details to come out of that when it posts.

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know!

Cheers,
Geoff

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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