WP Accessibility

This plug-in helps with a variety of common accessibility problems in WordPress themes. While most accessibility issues can’t be addressed without directly changing your theme, WP Accessibility adds a number of helpful accessibility features with a minimum amount of setup or expert knowledge.

WP Accessibility is not intended to make your site compatible with any accessibility guidelines.

All features can be disabled according to your theme’s needs. For advanced users, all of the functions based on modifying stylesheets can be customized using your own custom styles by placing the appropriate stylesheet in your theme directory.

Theme Accessibility Features added by WP Accessibility

These are features that address issues caused by inaccessible themes.

• Add skip links with user-defined targets. (Customizable targets and appearance.)
• Add language and text direction attributes to your HTML attribute if missing.
• Add an outline to the keyboard focus state for focusable elements.
• Add labels to standard WordPress form fields (search, comments)
• Add post titles to “read more” links.
• Remove tabindex from elements that are focusable.
• Remove user-scalable=no and maximum-scale=1 to allow resizing.

WordPress Core Accessibility Issues fixed by WP Accessibility

These are features that address issues caused by current or past WordPress core accessibility issues. (Issues added in content, such as target or title attributes, are persistent even when WordPress is updated.)

• Force a search page error when a search is made with an empty text string. (If your theme has a search.php template.)
• Remove redundant title attributes from tag clouds.
• Disable default enabling of full screen block editor.
• Reverse infinite scrolling by default as of WordPress 7.1.

Content specific fixes: