Steve Jones

Amber Hinds

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.

Joe Dolson

<p>This plug-in helps with a variety of common accessibility problems in WordPress themes. While most accessibility issues can’t be addressed without directly changing your theme, WP Accessibility adds a number of helpful accessibility features with a minimum amount of setup or expert knowledge.</p>
<p>WP Accessibility is not intended to make your site compatible with any accessibility guidelines.</p>
<p>All features can be disabled according to your theme’s needs. For advanced users, all of the functions based on modifying stylesheets can be customized using your own custom styles by placing the appropriate stylesheet in your theme directory.</p>
<h4>Theme Accessibility Features added by WP Accessibility</h4>
<p>These are features that address issues caused by inaccessible themes.</p>
<ul>
<li>Add skip links with user-defined targets. (Customizable targets and appearance.)</li>
<li>Add language and text direction attributes to your HTML attribute if missing.</li>
<li>Add an outline to the keyboard focus state for focusable elements.</li>
<li>Add a long description to images. Use the image’s “Description” field to add long descriptions.</li>
<li>Enforcement for alt attributes on images in the Classic editor.</li>
<li>Identify images without alt attributes in the Media Library</li>
<li>Add labels to standard WordPress form fields (search, comments)</li>
<li>Add post titles to “read more” links.</li>
<li>Remove tabindex from elements that are focusable. (Also fixes plugin-caused problems.)</li>
<li>Remove user-scalable=no to allow resizing.</li>
</ul>
<h4>WordPress Core Accessibility Issues fixed by WP Accessibility</h4>
<p>These are features that address issues caused by current or past WordPress core accessibility issues. (Issues added in content, such as target or title attributes, are persistent even when WordPress is updated.)</p>
<ul>
<li>Force a search page error when a search is made with an empty text string. (If your theme has a search.php template.)</li>
<li>Remove redundant title attributes from tag clouds.</li>
<li>Disable default enabling of full screen block editor.</li>
</ul>
<p>Content specific fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Strip title attributes from images inserted into content.</li>
<li>Remove the target attribute from links.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Accessibility Tools in WP Accessibility:</h4>
<p>These are tools provided to help you identify issues you may need to fix.</p>
<ul>
<li>Test the color contrast between two provided hexadecimal color values.</li>
<li>Enable diagnostic CSS to show CSS-detectable problems in visual editor or on front-end of site.</li>
<li>Search your media library on content in alt text fields.</li>
</ul>
<p>Learn more! <a href="https://docs.joedolson.com/wp-accessibility/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read about the accessibility issues corrected</a> by WP Accessibility!</p>
<p>The plug-in is intended to help with deficiencies commonly found in themes and to solve some issues in WordPress core. It can’t correct every problem (by a long shot), but provides tools to fix some issues, supplement the accessibility of your site, or identify problems.</p>
<h4>Statistics Collection</h4>
<p>WP Accessibility includes a statistics collection feature to help you identify how WP Accessibility is used on your site. This package does not collect any personally identifying data.</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.joedolson.com/wp-accessibility/2023/11/16/wp-accessibility-statistics/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about WP Accessibility statistics</a>.</p>
<h4>Contribute!</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-accessibility" rel="nofollow ugc">Help Translate WP Accessibility</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/joedolson/wp-accessibility" rel="nofollow ugc">Contribute to WP Accessibility</a></li>
</ul>


WP Accessibility

My theme doesn't come with accessibility out of the box. WP Accessibility fixed some of those. Brilliant plugin and above all it is free.

Top Class!!

Essenziale per rispettare le regole di accessibilità.

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WP Accessibility fixes common accessibility issues in your WordPress site.

Accessibility New Window Warnings vs WP Accessibility