Accessibility ready theme tag on WordPress.org

[Claire]

Hi,

In a previous thread about the accessibility ready tag, Tom said that:

GP 2.0 was reviewed by one of the accessibility team members on WordPress.org and passed the test.

We’ll be adding the tag soon 🙂

That was nearly 2 years ago!

Has there been any movement on this, as GeneratePress’ page on WordPress.org shows that it still doesn’t have the accessibility ready tag?

[Deborah]

Hi Claire,

Don’t know if you saw the GeneratePress 2.4.0 release notes, but Tom mentioned the accessibility-ready tag:

We were hoping to get the accessibility-ready tag on WordPress.org added to this version, but we hit a roadblock, unfortunately. We’re not able to get that tag without underlining all links in the content area by default. Since we’re not comfortable with introducing a major design change like that in an update, we opted out of the tag for now.

I’ve been disappointed too that the tag hasn’t been added.

[Leo]

Thanks Deborah for linking the release note!

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[Claire]

Thanks Deborah and Leo!

Are content link underlines something you’d consider in future?

Or could they be an option to toggle on in GP Premium?

[David]

Hi there,

this is very high on our list, for WP to provide the tag the option would have to be in the Theme and I believe enabled by default which as you could imagine may upset a lot of users.

Once we find a good workaround i am sure it will be implemented.

In the meantime if you need we can provide some CSS to add link underlines.

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[Claire]

Yes please, if you have a link to the CSS to do it that saves me figuring it out!

Thanks. 🙂

[Deborah]

Yes, I’d like the CSS code as well. Thank you for asking, Claire.

[David]

So this CSS will apply links just to the content of pages and posts:

.entry-content a {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[Deborah]

Thanks, David.

Any reason we couldn’t use

a {
    text-decoration:  underline;
}

Since I believe navigation and other page sections have linked text specifically styled?

[David]

Not really. I generally limit it to the entry-content so it only affects the links i added to the post editor. But the a tag should be fine – just be mindful that content via hooks or another plugin may be affected if they don’t have specific CSS.

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

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