Amber Hinds

Steve Jones

Road Warrior Creative

Equalize Digital

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.
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.
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: 
1. A new window icon after the link text to denote that the link opens in a new window for sighted people. 
2. A tooltip, visible on hover, that says “opens a new window.” 
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.
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.
In addition to adding warnings for your users, this plugin integrates with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-checker/" rel="ugc">Accessibility Checker plugin</a>; 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.
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>.
<h3>Localization</h3>
The Accessibility New Window Warnings plugin is ready for localization. We have added a Spanish translation and are open to more translations!
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>.

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.

Michael Burridge

FAQ Concertina is a plugin for WordPress that enables you to easily display a list of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) on your page or blog post in an attractive and presentable fashion.
This is achieved by using the following simple shortcode in your WordPress page or blog post:
<pre><code>[faq-concertina]
</code></pre>
When the list of FAQs appears on your page the answers are initially hidden with only the questions visible. This makes efficient use of the space available on the page and avoids large tracts of text which can be difficult for the reader to take in, especially on small screen devices such as smartphones.
The answer can be made to appear as an expandable section, concertina-style, by clicking on the question. The answer can be hidden again by clicking anywhere on either the question or answer.
With FAQ Concertina you can:
<ul>
<li>have any number of FAQs,</li>
<li>define the order in which the FAQs appear on the page,</li>
<li>determine whether or not more than one answer can be visible at any one time,</li>
<li>categorise FAQs so that FAQs from different categories can appear in separate lists, either on the same page or on separate pages,</li>
<li>customise the appearance of the FAQ listing to fit in with the style of your theme.</li>
</ul>
Although primarily intended for FAQs FAQ Concertina is, of course, not limited to just FAQs and can be used for any content with a heading where the content is initially hidden and can be expanded by clicking on the heading. Feel free to use your imagination to come up with all kinds of creative uses for FAQ Concertina!
<h4>WHAT’S NEW?</h4>
<ul>
<li>As of version 1.4.8 FAQs can now display a featured image (also known as post thumbnail)</li>
<li>As of version 1.4.6 FAQs support post revisions.</li>
<li>As of version 1.4.0 FAQ Concertina is WAI-ARIA compliant. This means that FAQ Concertina is fully accessible and compatible with screen readers and other assistive technologies. Thanks to Tim Kaye <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kts915" rel="nofollow ugc">@kts915</a> for contributing JavaScript code to make this possible.</li>
</ul>
The FAQ Concertina download includes a fully illustrated 20 page manual in <code>.pdf</code> format to help you get the most from the plugin. The manual can also be downloaded from the website:
<a href="http://www.zyriab.co.uk/faqconc/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.zyriab.co.uk/faqconc/</a>
<a href="http://twitter.com/michaelburridge" rel="nofollow ugc">http://twitter.com/michaelburridge</a>

FAQ Concertina

Display FAQs in an expandable concertina or accordion section. FAQs can be ordered and categorised, and their appearance can be customised.

Accessibility New Window Warnings vs FAQ Concertina