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From: Schulz, Leslie
Date: Tue, Jan 04 2022 12:03PM
Subject: WordPress Theme
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I have worked with the PE Lawyer theme by PixelMu. It seems to work well and has accessible tools built in for font size and background color. That company offers several different accessible themes.

https://www.pixelemu.com/

Thanks,
Leslie

From: Amanda Rush
Date: Tue, Jan 04 2022 11:26PM
Subject: Re: Accessible WordPress Theme
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Hi Austin,

The best place to look for accessible WordPress themes is the WordPress
theme repository under the "Accessible Ready" tag. This is because these
themes are vetted to ensure that any claim of accessibility are accurate.
Note that none of them will claim that they are WCAG compliant as the theme
guidelines prohibit claims that any given theme can make a site compliant
with any
Legal framework or legislation.

While there may be third-party themes that are actually accessible, any
theme author can make any claim. There's also a lot of ignorance in the
third-party WordPress theme design/development space, which creates a
situation where theme authors really do intend to release an accessible
product but end up releasing an inaccessible one.

Finally, the theme is only part of the site's accessibility. The other parts
have to do with the content itself, and then what happens when plugins get
installed as they almost always do. The WordPress accessibility team does
not vet plugins, there are no plugin guidelines that address accessibility,
and consequently there are a ton of plugins even in the repository that can
introduce some significant accessibility issues to a site, and counting on
developers to fix the issues they introduce is kind of like playing darts in
the dark.

I don't know what kind of site you're building, so it would be difficult to
try to make recommendations that wouldn't create too many issues, (this also
applies to blocks and block collections if you're going that route), but if
you have further questions this list will probably take them as long as
they're related to accessibility.

Amanda

From: Date: Wed, Jan 05 2022 8:19AM
Subject: Re: Accessible WordPress Theme
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Hi Austin,

Amanda's remarks are very important, but I would back to your original
question:

I have an accessible theme: Manduca
<https://wordpress.org/themes/manduca/>. This was also approved by
WordPress Accessibility Team (all accessible-ready themes need to be
reviewed by them.)

You can create a beautiful design with a child theme.

It's important to mention that my goal is not only to conform with
WCAG's success criterias, but add even more  features built in. For
example focus-snake,  absolutely valid HTML markup, multi-level
navigation menu easily usable with many screen readers (this is  not an
easy challenge), wide-scale reading options, HTML sitemap, accessible
tab and hide-show modul.

I started to develop this theme because my wife is blind, so
accessibility is essential for her. I'm  developing Manduca for 7 years
now and I've bult more than 30 accessible websites with it.

Zsolt Edelényi

2022. 01. 05. 7:26 keltezéssel, Amanda Rush írta:
> Hi Austin,
>
> The best place to look for accessible WordPress themes is the WordPress
> theme repository under the "Accessible Ready" tag. This is because these
> themes are vetted to ensure that any claim of accessibility are accurate.
> Note that none of them will claim that they are WCAG compliant as the theme
> guidelines prohibit claims that any given theme can make a site compliant
> with any
> Legal framework or legislation.
>
> While there may be third-party themes that are actually accessible, any
> theme author can make any claim. There's also a lot of ignorance in the
> third-party WordPress theme design/development space, which creates a
> situation where theme authors really do intend to release an accessible
> product but end up releasing an inaccessible one.
>
> Finally, the theme is only part of the site's accessibility. The other parts
> have to do with the content itself, and then what happens when plugins get
> installed as they almost always do. The WordPress accessibility team does
> not vet plugins, there are no plugin guidelines that address accessibility,
> and consequently there are a ton of plugins even in the repository that can
> introduce some significant accessibility issues to a site, and counting on
> developers to fix the issues they introduce is kind of like playing darts in
> the dark.
>
> I don't know what kind of site you're building, so it would be difficult to
> try to make recommendations that wouldn't create too many issues, (this also
> applies to blocks and block collections if you're going that route), but if
> you have further questions this list will probably take them as long as
> they're related to accessibility.
>
> Amanda
>
>
>

From: Arnold, Sarah Joy
Date: Wed, Jan 05 2022 11:23AM
Subject: Re: Accessible WordPress Theme
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Hi Auston,

My office reviewed a bunch of WordPress themes last year.

Here are the ones we recommended to our web services group:
- Koji <https://wordpress.org/themes/koji/>
- Neve <https://wordpress.org/themes/neve/>
- Miniva <https://wordpress.org/themes/miniva/>
- Author <https://wordpress.org/themes/author/>
- Componentz <https://wordpress.org/themes/componentz/>
- Aeonblog <https://wordpress.org/themes/aeonblog/>
- Twenty Twenty <https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwenty/>
- Twenty Twenty One <https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentyone/>

None of them are perfect for accessibility, but would work with a few adjustments.

You can also search for "accessibility ready" (filter) themes here: <https://wordpress.org/themes/>

Best,
Sarah Joy Arnold (she/her), CPWA
Digital Accessibility Office | UNC-Chapel Hill
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On 1/4/22, 1:48 PM, "Auston Stamm" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

Hi All,

I'm curious if you have any accessible WordPress themes that you'd
recommend.

I found this theme: Icelander
<https://www.webmandesign.eu/portfolio/icelander-wordpress-theme/> that
claims to be WCAG 2.0 AA Compliant and some accessible themes from Pixelemu
<https://www.pixelemu.com/wordpress-themes>.

If you have any additional suggestions please let me know and I hope you
are having a great start to 2022.

*---------------------*
*Auston Stamm, Doctoral Candidate, Educational Technology*
*he / him / his*
Saint Mary's College of California
Student Disability Services
<https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/student-disability-services>
Accessibility & Assistive Technology Coordinator
Office: (925) 631-5071
Email: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =

From: L Snider
Date: Wed, Jan 05 2022 12:27PM
Subject: Re: Accessible WordPress Theme
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I found that when I looked for themes, I always have to audit them. I go
further than WCAG, but some of them were not great even for WCAG 2.0 and
were marked in the accessible ready category on WordPress. So do some
auditing before you choose a theme.

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 2:49 PM Auston Stamm < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm curious if you have any accessible WordPress themes that you'd
> recommend.
>
> I found this theme: Icelander
> <https://www.webmandesign.eu/portfolio/icelander-wordpress-theme/> that
> claims to be WCAG 2.0 AA Compliant and some accessible themes from Pixelemu
> <https://www.pixelemu.com/wordpress-themes>.
>
> If you have any additional suggestions please let me know and I hope you
> are having a great start to 2022.
>
> *---------------------*
> *Auston Stamm, Doctoral Candidate, Educational Technology*
> *he / him / his*
> Saint Mary's College of California
> Student Disability Services
> <https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/student-disability-services>
> Accessibility & Assistive Technology Coordinator
> Office: (925) 631-5071
> Email: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> > > > >

From: Amanda Rush
Date: Wed, Jan 05 2022 12:38PM
Subject: Re: Accessible WordPress Theme
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I concur with the below recommendation as the WordPress accessibility
guidelines are not the same as WCAG.

Amanda

From: Colleen Gratzer
Date: Thu, Jan 06 2022 9:55AM
Subject: Re: Accessible WordPress Theme
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I usually end up tweaking themes a bit for accessibility, but I like
Underscores and Icelander.


Colleen Gratzer
Website accessibility and accessible design courses
https://creative-boost.com/courses/
Design Mentor and Host of the Design Domination podcast
http://creative-boost.com
Certified Branding Expert + Accessibility Specialist, Gratzer Graphics LLC
https://gratzergraphics.com


On 1/4/22 1:48 PM, Auston Stamm wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm curious if you have any accessible WordPress themes that you'd
> recommend.

From: Auston Stamm
Date: Thu, Jan 06 2022 10:46AM
Subject: Re: Accessible WordPress Theme
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Thank you, Colleen, and all the other respondents. The information has been
very helpful.
*---------------------*
*Auston Stamm, Doctoral Candidate, Educational Technology*
*he / him / his*
Saint Mary's College of California
Student Disability Services
<https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/student-disability-services>
Accessibility & Assistive Technology Coordinator
Office: (925) 631-5071
Email: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =


On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 8:55 AM Colleen Gratzer < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:

> I usually end up tweaking themes a bit for accessibility, but I like
> Underscores and Icelander.
>
>
> Colleen Gratzer
> Website accessibility and accessible design courses
> https://creative-boost.com/courses/
> Design Mentor and Host of the Design Domination podcast
> http://creative-boost.com
> Certified Branding Expert + Accessibility Specialist, Gratzer Graphics LLC
> https://gratzergraphics.com
>
>
> On 1/4/22 1:48 PM, Auston Stamm wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm curious if you have any accessible WordPress themes that you'd
> > recommend.
>

From: Amanda Rush
Date: Thu, Jan 06 2022 11:49AM
Subject: Re: Accessible WordPress Theme
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I'm not familiar with Icelander, but Underscores is explicitly a starter
theme and intended to be built-upon rather than used out-of-box. So it's
probably not practical for most users.


Amanda