WP Accessibility Knowledge Base
WP Accessibility Knowledge Base
Documentation about accessibility for WordPress users and creators. For the community, by the community.
This documentation aims to provide you with answers about WordPress and accessibility. How do you design and create an accessible website or plugin? How do you write accessible content? What do you need to know to comply with international legislation?
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Reading guide
Find the documentation for your work role, work field and expertise.
Getting Started
Content managers and writers
- Find training that fits your needs, in Start with accessibility.
- Content and images, in Standards and best practice.
- Content checks, in Checklists for accessibility testing.
- WordPress plugins for accessibility testing, in Test for accessibility.
Design & user experience specialists
- Find training that fits your needs, in Start with accessibility.
- Design & user experience, in Standards and best practice.
- Web forms, in Standards and best practice.
- Design checks, in Checklists for accessibility testing:
Website and plugin developers
- Find training that fits your needs, in Start with accessibility.
- Frontend code, in Standards and best practice.
- How to build accessible web forms, in Standards and best practice.
- Frontend checks, in Checklists for accessibility testing.
Theme developers
- Find training that fits your needs, in Start with accessibility.
- Standards and best practice.
- Guidelines for the WordPress accessibility-ready tag, in Standards and best practice.
- Set up testing for the WordPress themes accessibility-ready tag, in Test for accessibility.
Quality assurance and auditing
- Standards and best practice.
- Documenting accessibility, in Standards and best practice.
- Accessibility legislation, in Standards and best practice.
- Test for accessibility.
- WordPress plugins for testing in Test for accessibility.
- Accessibility for your business, in Start with accessibility.
- Guidelines for the WordPress accessibility-ready tag in Standards and best practice.
- Set up testing for the WordPress themes accessibility-ready tag, in Test for accessibility.
WordPress core contributors
- Find training that fits your needs, in Start with accessibility.
- Standards and best practice.
- Test for accessibility.
- WordPress and accessibility.
Management
Stakeholders and site owners
- Start with accessibility.
- Find training that fits your needs.
- Introduction to WCAG.
- Accessibility for your business.
- They’re not my visitors.
- Overlays and why not to use them.
- Accessibility legislation, in Standards and best practice.
- Documenting Accessibility, including how to write an accessibility statement.
New and updated content
By Amber Hinds and Joe Dolson in May 2026: