Accessibility Checker for Compliance with Accessibility Standards
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Implement an Accessibility Checker within the Gutenberg editor to help users ensure their content meets accessibility standards like WCAG. This feature would analyse posts and pages in real-time, identifying issues such as low contrast ratios, missing alt text, improper heading structure, and more. It could provide actionable suggestions and fixes directly within the editor, empowering users to create content that is inclusive and accessible to all audiences. This tool would be invaluable for ensuring websites are both user-friendly and legally compliant.
Thanks for opening the issue, @kogunlana!
The editor already provides some of these functionalities:
- Contrast ratios - this is part of color settings.
- Improper heading structure - the document outline will warn users when incorrect heading levels are used.
- Missing image alt text warnings - the proposal is being tracked in #16909.
Anything more advanced is probably better suited for accessibility plugins like -
WP Accessibility and Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker.
Based on this, I suggest we close this general feature request.
cc @joedolson, @afercia
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The editor already provides some of these functionalities:
It is worth noting that those features are currently not fully working and are buggy. I would love to see more focus on fixing them and make sure they work with all blocks including dynamic ones, bound blocks and the like. So far, I'm not sure the editor can state these accessibility checks are 'implemented' as they're basically broken.
@afercia, I think these bug reports have their issues and PRs; we can continue the discussion there.
No objections to close.