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Re: accessibility of WordPress share widget -- Shareaholic

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From: me
Date: May 3, 2016 8:29AM

Hey Jennifer,

I don't have any experience with this plugin, but it's popular, so I imagine the developers would be open to any feedback to improve it. That feedback would go a long way too since, according to the plugin directory, it's used on more than 100,000 sites.

Maybe file the issues on Github, and advise your clients to switch until those issues are fixed? The issues with most sharing plugins are usually minor.

Good luck!

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David A. Kennedy
http://davidakennedy.com

> On May 3, 2016, at 7:15 AM, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
>
> Greetings WebAIM list (and others who are bcc-ed):
>
> Apologies for any duplication.
>
> I'm assessing a WordPress project that uses Shareaholic, a WordPress share widget plugin:
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic
>
> and
> https://github.com/wp-plugins/shareaholic
>
>
> As far as I can tell, this widget is not accessible, at least to a screen reader. When I look at it with a screen reader, I see the heading for it, but the area below is "blank."
>
> And if I look at an article where items have been shared, I see numbers (that are not links but text), and the numbers can be activated so that they go to their corresponding site(s).
>
> Has anyone had experience working with this vendor to make the product accessible? Does anyone have a personal contact? Or has anyone improved its functionality and can share that implementation with me? It appears as if improvements can be requested, via Git. Maybe an approach would be to post the issue and see if I can muster enough folks to "vote it up."
>
> I'm asking as I'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel if anyone knows any useful history.
>
> The folks I'm working with would prefer not to switch. But of course, I do know that there are other accessible options for share plugins, such as via the Web Experience Toolkit from Canada.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
> Best,
> Jennifer