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.

yydevelopment

<p>This YYDevelopment Accessibility plugin will allow you to add accessibility button to your website and help dealing with some of the WCAG rules.</p>
<p>This plugins is meant improve your site browsing experience for people with disabilities using your site. The plugin will allow increasing and decreasing the font size, change the size contrast and add link to your site accessibility statement page.</p>
<p>It’s also important to note out that this plugin not making sure site fully accessible but it helps dealing with some of the WCAG guidelines.</p>
<h4>Accessibility Plugin Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Increase Font Size Button</li>
<li>Decrease Font Size Button</li>
<li>Light contrast Button</li>
<li>High contrast Button</li>
<li>The ability to add link to accessibility page on your site</li>
<li>The ability to change the position of the button</li>
<li>Control over the button design (button size, background, position, z-index, icon and much more…)</li>
<li>RTL support</li>
</ul>
<h4>Accessibility Plugin Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Hebrew</li>
</ul>
<h4>About the author & license</h4>
<p>This plugin was brought to you for free by <a href="https://www.yydevelopment.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">YYDevelopment</a> under GPLv2 license.</p>
<p>The plugin is 100% free and we intend to keep it that way in the future as well. You are free to use this plugin and all our other <a href="https://www.yydevelopment.com/yydevelopment-wordpress-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">free wordpress plugins</a> for your projects, your client’s projects or for anything else you need.</p>
<p>If this plugin was helpful for you please share it online and if you get a chance to give it a <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/yydevelopment-accessibility/#reviews" rel="ugc">positive review</a> we will appreciate that.</p>
<p>If have any problems or questions regarding our YYDevelopment accessibility plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/yydevelopment-accessibility/" rel="ugc">submit a ticket</a> and we will be happy to help.</p>
<p>By the way, we are based in Israel so we welcome you to visit our Hebrew site as well <a href="https://www.yydevelopment.co.il/" rel="nofollow ugc">YYDevelopment Israel</a> if you are fellow Israeli.</p>
<h4>Help support us with a coffee donation</h4>
<p>Don’t you just hate it when you download a plugin and you find out that in order to use it you have to buy a pro version?</p>
<p>Even bigger problem is when you use a plugin and then just out of the blue the developer decides to add a pro version and he either changes the way the plugin works or he converts some of the free functions to paid ones.</p>
<p>We sure did hate that and a few years back we decided to start creating some of the plugins ourselves and we decided to share them all with the WordPress community <strong>100% FREE</strong>.</p>
<p>Nowadays we have more than 15 plugins and you can download and use them all for free by <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/yydevelopment/" rel="ugc">Clicking Here</a>.</p>
<p>If you liked this plugin and you want to help support our cause, <a href="https://www.yydevelopment.com/coffee-break/?plugin=yydevelopment-accessibility" rel="nofollow ugc">buy us a coffee</a>. Studies show that coffee helps with creating WordPress plugins.</p>


Simple Accessibility Button

Simple plugin that allow you add accessibility button to your website

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