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From: Amanda J. Rush
Date: Sep 6, 2019 1:11PM

Hi,


As far as I'm aware, all the plugins that will let you create
expandable/collapsable things like FAQs come with accessibility issues,
so if your user wants to create this kind of content, they will first
need to make a decision about which accessibility issues they're willing
to live with. Yes, I know, that's probably accessibility heresy, but if
you're using an out-of-box solution it's just the way things are on the
ground.


The first question I would ask myself if I were the user is: What
problem am I trying to solve by making the FAQ expand/collapse, or at
least dependent on that functionality. If the answer to that question is
something along the lines of "it looks prettier, but other than that
doesn't solve any other problem), then I would recommend foregoing the
expand/collapse functionality in favor of question in short form at
heading level 2, followed by question in long form if it exists, and
then answer short form at level 3 and long form under that, using the
page template that comes with the theme, default or landing page if the
theme contains that template.


Amanda



On 9/6/2019 2:46 PM, Lucy GRECO wrote:
> hello: every one.
> i have a user that wants to create a expanding faq in word press and i am
> having no luck finding some thing for him to use. i am getting fed up with
> useing google to find some thing as the addes are driving me nuts. if you
> sertch for anything with word press and access it gives you a pile of
> adds for eavle tolbars. so i reely don't want to send my user down that
> path smile lucy
> Lucia Greco
> Web Accessibility Evangelist
> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
> University of California, Berkeley
> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
> > > >