Building a Beautifully Accessible & Responsive Web for WordPress
There is a new version of A11 Y’all theme I submitted to WordPress.org. So what’s on this site is not the version currently available there. It’s only minor updates.
Y’all – I have a problem. There’s a growing list of things I want to upgrade on the A11 Y’all theme, but the WordPress.org review process frustrates me to the point that I’m disincentivized. While I wouldn’t recommend it, if you go through the series of three tickets ending here that led to its release, you’ll see […]
I’m happy to announce that the A11 Y’all theme is now live and ready to download on WordPress.org. Many thanks to the many people who helped make this possible
Three years ago I fell in love. With SVG. It was a love affair that was meant to be. I adore vector graphics, accessibility, and code — and SVG is all of that and more. But this affair was cursed by two things….
Well who knew…. I need to license the header image I created for this theme. I just learned this as part of getting the theme reviewed for WordPress.
While waiting for a full accessibility audit to come through, I decided to make the the All Y’all WordPress theme “translation-ready” too. I did it using this first-rate post from Smashing Magazine: Internationalizing And Localizing Your WordPress Theme. It was a stretch for me — but one of those good stretches — learning more cool […]
After CSUN, I had a major project on my plate. The lion’s share of that is now done and I’m back on track for getting my theme submitted to WordPress.org. Before I submit it, however, I want the theme to be WCAG2 AAA compliant. That’s a tall order — way beyond the basic WordPress accessible-ready […]
I’ve just released a minor upgrade to the All Y’all WordPress theme. The main change you’ll notice is adding featured image functionality — so thumbnail graphics show on blog post listing pages, like this page.
I’m a simple soul. Well, that’s not true, but I do have a deep hunger for simplicity and best practices — guidelines to help me pull together beautifully accessible websites without huge amounts of research on every detail. Among those “details” I often wrestle with are fonts. I have this pipe dream that one day […]
I just got a request from Joseph Karr O’Connor that “when we release accessible themes that we describe them so everyone can get a sense of what they look like.” Well, wow…. That’s seriously cool that anyone’s interested. I bet he specifically wants a description that works for a blind person. To that end…. The […]