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.

John Dorner

Steven Ayers

<p>It is increasingly important for you to make your images meet accessibility standards. Images must have alternative text (alt text) added so that the visually impaired can use screen readers to understand the purpose and context of the image displayed on the screen.</p>
<p>In addition to making your site more accessible, using alt text helps your site rank better in search engines. This is an added SEO benefit for marketers.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, as a site grows, it becomes difficult and time-consuming to edit and maintain image alt text. Fix Alt Text plugin can help you discover where alt text is needed, quickly fix issues, and even force users to input alt text as images are used throughout the site in the future.</p>
<h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Find Usage: Easily find all uses of alt text by scanning the site</li>
<li>Find keyword usage: Search for specific keywords used in alt text</li>
<li>Inline Editing: Instantly edit alt text without manually editing and searching through the content of a post, attachment, or custom post type</li>
<li>Detect Issues: Quickly identify issues with your alt text to assist you in ADA compliance</li>
<li>Toggle Features: Control which features are active for maximum flexibility</li>
<li>Tool Access: Control which user roles have access to the plugin</li>
<li>Settings Access: Control which user roles have access to changing settings</li>
<li>Global Settings: In a multisite setup, save time by using global settings and select which sites will inherit those settings</li>
<li>Fully Multisite Compatible: Force sites within the network to use global network settings for easy management</li>
</ul>
<h3>Bonus Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Privacy: It does not use any 3rd-party tracking</li>
<li>No Sales Pitches: It does not sell or promote any pro plugins</li>
<li>Free: It’s currently and will continue to be a Free plugin!</li>
<li>No Littering: It cleans up after itself if uninstalled or when a blog is removed from a multisite network.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Compatible With</h3>
<ul>
<li>Multisite Installations</li>
<li>WP Gutenberg Editor</li>
<li>WP Classic Editor</li>
<li>PHP Versions 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/where-used/" rel="ugc">WhereUsed</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/" rel="ugc">Advanced Custom Fields – ACF</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/humanmade/network-media-library" rel="nofollow ugc">Network Media Library</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Language Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>English (default)</li>
<li><a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fix-alt-text" rel="nofollow ugc">Translate this plugin in your language.</a></li>
</ul>


Fix Alt Text

Does everything it's supposed to and saved me a lot of time, thanks to the author.

Fantastic Plugin


This is a great little plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin, and does it very well!Fixes a very real world problem we had.Thanks guys.


Amazing And Really Useful Little Plugin

Manage alt text site-wide easily with Fix Alt Text. You can also force users to use alt text when adding images in Gutenberg and Classic editors.

Accessibility New Window Warnings vs Fix Alt Text