On its demo site you can see how Unlimited looks like when it’s fully set up. Subtle visual design elements help users to quickly make sense of the content just take a look at the smartly emphasized meta information (date, author, number of comments) at the bottom of the featured image at each post. The sidebar widgets are smartly highlighted by dark gray top borders. It loads quickly and uses a high colour contrast ratio (white & light gray versus dark gray) that matches the needs of visually impaired users. Unlimited is a carefully designed, general purpose WordPress theme with a right sidebar. We omitted some (otherwise great) themes that used too low colour contrast ratios, hamburger menus on desktop size or other visual design practices that may affect accessibility for certain groups of disabled people. In this collection we did not only pay attention to whether a theme had the accessibility-ready tag in the WordPress repository, we also took into consideration whether it met the main principles of accessibility design. In this post we will take a look at the 10 best accessibility-ready WordPress themes to help you build digitally inclusive WordPress sites.
If a submitted theme uses the accessibility-ready tag, the review team will check it against the accessibility guidelines to ensure that themes promoting themselves as accessibility-ready are really so. The accessibility review is an optional stage in the WordPress theme review process. The WordPress A11y (Accessibility) Team is busy making the platform available to as many people as possible, and they have even published a great Handbook on WordPress Accessibility for developers. WordPress as a leading content management system and blogging platform is on the frontline of accessibility development as well. These days it’s hard to get a government contract without taking care of digital inclusivity, and many well-known companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google also treat accessibility as a priority.
Building accessible websites that don’t exclude people with different kinds of disabilities has become more of a requirement in web design in the recent years.
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