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From: Chanel Carlascio
Date: Jun 9, 2019 3:36PM

I am not sure if this will help you, but I did find a number of Wordpress
plugins that claim to address accessibility:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/accessibility/

And a number of themes that claim to be accessible:
https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready/

I'd love to hear if any of these are a good work around for you.



On June 9, 2019 at 1:45:11 PM, JP Jamous ( <EMAIL REMOVED> ) wrote:

Hi folks,



I have a unique situation. There is a WordPress blog running on ServerX. I
have a client who wants to have access to that blog and show it on his web
site. His web site uses ServerY.



While ServerY does not run WordPress at all, developers decided to use a
PHP
function that would retrieve the page from the WordPress database. They
will
then show it on a particular page on ServerY, because it would be all of
the
HTML/text of that blog.



1. Users on ServerX can create their own blogs and they drag and drop
all type of content. WCAG is not included at all. For example all of the
headings could be H1s.
2. Whenever they create that blog, the blog is pages are saved to the
WordPress database.
3. The first attempt for my client's developers is to grab the blog
content and show it on my client's web site, which runs Apache only.
4. The next phase will be to allow visitors on my client's site to
respond to blog comments from that web site.



While I am not concerned about the server-side stuff, I have not been able
to find a way to apply accessibility to this project. It seems to me that
the content authors that will be creating the blog in the first place, must
use proper heading levels and all that good stuff. There isn't anything
programmatic that my client's developers can do to ensure that imported
content conforms to WCAG 2.0 Level AA guidelines.



Has anyone worked on something like that in the past? Are there any PHP or
add-ins that can be used to automate the process to achieve a better A11Y
access? I know quite well that not all WCAG guidelines can be automated.
Many require manual testing. Yet, if we can automate, whichever guidelines
we can, that will definitely help the page.



Any feedback or articles are greatly appreciated.







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