Amber Hinds

Steve Jones

Road Warrior Creative

Equalize Digital

<p>Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Success Criterion 3.2 (Predictable) specifies that web pages should appear and operate in predictable ways. It is a common practice to set links that go to off-site locations to open in a new window or tab when clicked. Opening new windows or tabs automatically when a link is activated can be disorienting for people who have difficulty perceiving visual content, and for some people with cognitive disabilities, if they are not warned in advance.</p>
<p>This plugin helps websites become more accessible and better meet WCAG guidelines for predicability by providing advanced warning if a link is going to open a new window or tab before the user clicks or activates it. Providing a warning allows the user to decide it they want to leave the current window, and the warning will help them find their way back, if they do decide they would like to go to the new window. It will help them understand that the “back” button will not work and that they have to return to the last window they had open, in order to find their previous location.</p>
<p>There are no settings in this plugin. Simply activate it and it will automatically find all links that open in a new window and add the following three fixes to each link:<br />
1. A new window icon after the link text to denote that the link opens in a new window for sighted people.<br />
2. A tooltip, visible on hover, that says “opens a new window.”<br />
3. “Opens a new window” screen reader text that will be read out to blind or visually impaired people using screen readers immediately following the link anchor text.</p>
<p>Please note: new window warnings will be added to links and links that have been styled to look like buttons, including social media sharing and link icons. Depending upon what third party plugins are adding links to your site that open in new windows, some CSS styling may be required.</p>
<p>In addition to adding warnings for your users, this plugin integrates with the <strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-checker/" rel="ugc">Accessibility Checker plugin</a></strong>; when Accessibility New Window Warnings is activated, it will automatically clear all “<a href="https://equalizedigital.com/accessibility-checker/link-opens-new-window-or-tab/" rel="nofollow ugc">Link Opens New Window or Tab</a>” warnings in Accessibility Checker scans of your website. Installing and activating this plugin is a great way to quickly remediate and remove a lot of open issues across you entire website.</p>
<p>The Accessibility New Window Warnings plugin is inspired by <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G201.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Techniques for WCAG 2.0 G201: Giving users advanced warning when opening a new window</a>.</p>
<h3>Localization</h3>
<p>The Accessibility New Window Warnings plugin is ready for localization. We have added a Spanish translation and are open to more translations!</p>
<p>If you would like to contribute a translation to this plugin, please <a href="https://equalizedigital.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a> or <a href="https://github.com/equalizedigital/accessibility-new-window-warnings" rel="nofollow ugc">fork the repository on GitHub</a>.</p>


Accessibility New Window Warnings

Install, activate, DONE! I love how simply this plugin fixes a real problem! This goes right into my starter site and on every website I build from here on out!

Simple solution for an important problem


I installed this on my blog as I wanted to ensure there was a visible indication when links opened external pages to better comply with accessibility guidelines without having to go through hundreds of old posts. Did the job and correctly and easily and automaticaly added the desired indicators, markup and icons.


Does the job intended

Make links that open in a new window compliant with WCAG guidelines for accessibility by adding a warning for users.

Frank Bueltge

Inpsyde GmbH

Robert Windisch

David

<p>This plugin allows you to make your WordPress site accessible to logged in users only. In other words, to view your site they have to create or have an account on your site and be logged in. No configuration necessary, simply activating – that’s all.</p>
<h4>Crafted by Inpsyde</h4>
<p>The team at <a href="https://inpsyde.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Inpsyde</a> is engineering the web and WordPress since 2006.</p>
<h4>Donation?</h4>
<p>You want to donate – we prefer a positive review, not more.</p>
<h4>Bugs, technical hints or contribute</h4>
<p>Please give me feedback, contribute and file technical bugs on <a href="https://github.com/bueltge/Authenticator" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repo</a>.</p>
<h4>License</h4>
<p>Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, you can thank me and leave a <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6069955" rel="nofollow ugc">small donation</a> for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin. And I really don’t want to know how many hours of my life this plugin has already eaten 😉</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Codex</a> for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the translation possibility in <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/authenticator" rel="nofollow ugc">this page here</a>.</p>
<h4>Donation?</h4>
<p>You want to donate – we prefer a positive review, not more.</p>


Authenticator

This is the first plugin I install on every new website to protect it until going live.

Never had any problems with this handy piece of software.

Thanks,
Peter

Indispensable

This plugin allows you to make your WordPress site accessible to logged in users only.

Accessibility New Window Warnings vs Authenticator