[Athen] accesskey keyboard accessibility and WordPress sites

[Jennifer Sutton]

Hello, all:

I wouldn't particularly put accesskeys as a high priority when 
setting up an accessible WordPress site. It's difficult to select 
them so that they won't conflict with other key-combos.

WordPress is now on Version 3.9, and I would say that there's been 
quite a bit of effort to improve its accessibility over the last 
year, both on the front and back end. That being said, people need to 
take care not to break accessibility that's built into core, and it 
does, indeed, matter which themes you choose (or how you build your own).

Note that Joe Dolson recently gave an online course on WordPress and 
accessibility; he's very knowledgeable. I believe he's the one who 
built the WordPress Accessibility plugin Paul mentions below.

Here are a few more links to add to Paul's:

Joe's slides from WordCamp Minneapolis (recent):
http://slides.joedolson.com/wcmsp2014/#1

A Post by Joe on Accessible Video:
https://www.joedolson.com/articles/2013/11/accessible-video-wordpress/

A post by someone who built an accessible theme for the Cities Project:
http://www.happywebdiva.com/2014/03/15/accessible-wordpress-theme/

And another theme from that project:
http://davidakennedy.com/2013/accessible-zen-an-accessible-wordpress-theme/

A post that collects most of the key resources:
http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/61516-WordPress-Accessibility-Resources

and last, but perhaps most important, the Accessibility Guidelines to 
help with building themes:
http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-accessibility/


Best,
Jennifer