I have a client who wishes to create a website full compliant with the disability W3C standards. Will bbpress work for this?

Thanks
Mary

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years, 5 months ago]

bbpress uses much of the theme characteristics so if the theme is compliant then bbpress should be there.

you can also use my style pack

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

to style to get improved fonts etc.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 5 months ago]

@maryt66

bbPress needs some more work to be more accessible to visually impaired users. There are some tickets in the bbPress trac for bbPress for adjusting things like the breadcrumbs markup, notices markup, and some heading changes, etc.

A lot has been suggested for improvements from this gist and I think there could be some other improvements regarding admin link markup, topic status labels, and just having a horizontal layout might be better in the end for users.

Robins plugin I think won’t really help in most of these areas and won’t really make your forums moer accessible, I think only a possible contrast issue in one area at best is what his plugin can help with.

[@netweb Keymaster 9 years, 5 months ago]

We would love have full WCAG 2.0 compliance 🙂

Our open tickets for further improvements are here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=General+-+Accessibility&order=priority

We will also follow WordPress’ lead and any initiatives by the accessibility team

https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/

There is also the accessibility team handbook: https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/handbook/

For bbPress much of what is needed right now is testing of our open tickets to make sure we are on the right track, any help would be graciously welcome 🙂

[@maryt66 Participant 9 years, 5 months ago]

Thanks all for your answers – very helpful. It looks like you are trying to move towards accessibility. I’ll be happy to help with testing if my client decides to go ahead.

[@netweb Keymaster 9 years, 5 months ago]

Thanks @maryt66 🙂

[@maserin Participant 1 week, 4 days ago]

I noticed that this thread is almost a decade old at this point, so I’m looking for an update on measures bbPress has taken to bring your plugin up to the latest WCAG standard, especially in light of recent updates to Title II of the ADA stating that all state and local government web properties must be compliant with WCAG 2.1AA.

Please let me know if you have created a VPAT or Accessibility Conformance Report recently. Also, if you have a link to your accessibility statement I would love to have it for my records since our agency would like to be able to use your plugin from time to time but enforce the policy that all the plugins we use prioritize accessibility. Thanks!