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From: Lucy GRECO
Date: Sep 6, 2019 1:13PM

thanks
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



On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 12:11 PM Amanda J. Rush < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
> > > > > > > > > > > > >