Accessibility status

[Jonathan Silverman]

I’m considering The Events Calendar for an upcoming project and am wondering about the status of your move to make it accessible. See https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/status-of-wcag-2-0-accessibility-compliance/ for a closed thread on this topic. The plugin is great but accessibility is important for this project. Any progress?

Thanks,
Jonathan

[Nico]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your interest in our products and for reaching out as well!

Unfortunately we still have not make any progress on this, as it’s something not critical for most of our users. I guess a basic use of the plugin (with just list and day views) might be fully accessible (or some template overrides might fix the issues if any). I’m aware month and week view present some more complex challenges and making them accessible can be a difficult task.

I guess the best way to check if this will work for you is to download The Events Calendar core version, install it in a clean site and run some tests (automated / manual) to see how much tweak it will need to fit the project accessibility standards.

Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you,
Best,
Nico

[Chris Martinez]

Just came across this thread. I too am having accessibility issue with The Events Calendar. Many of them were color issue and therefore easily fixable. However, the biggest one I’m having is this:

Page should be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz.

It appears on this page, https://research.utexas.edu/events/2016-01/ and the offending element is this

<img class="tribe-events-spinner-medium" src="https://research.utexas.edu/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/resources/images/tribe-loading.gif" alt="Loading Events">

My guess is that the animation in the loading.gif is too fast and causes flickering on the page (Web pages must not contain anything that flashes with the rate in range 2 – 55 Hz – https://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-section-508-standards/section-508-standards). So my questions are 1) Is there a way to turn off the AJAX between calendar pages and thus turn off the Loading.gif? Or 2) Can I simply replace the gif with another, slower animated gif?

Thank you for your help with this issue.

– Chris Martinez

[Nico]

Hi there Chris,

Thanks for jumping in! While we do not respond support questions on the Pre-Sales forum I’ll try to give you a brief reply…

I guess the simplest solution here is to replace the GIF via CSS for another image (animated or not) that complies with that particular rule. Do you think that might work for this case?

Best,
Nico

[Chris Martinez]

Thanks for helping! I’ll give that a shot.

Is turning the AJAX off a feature of the Pro version?

[Nico]

Chris,

Sure, I guess that’s the simplest solution. To ‘turn off Ajax’ you’ll need to dequeue some of the scripts that make that work, take a look at this thread that provides a code sample on how to do so for month view.

Best,
Nico

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