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The Accessibility Team provides accessibility expertise across the project to improve the accessibility of WordPress core and resources.

The WordPress Accessibility Coding Standards state that “All new or updated code released in WordPress must conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 at level AA.”

Find out how you can help!

Get involved
See the accessibility related active tickets, tasks, and useful reports
See accessibility issues for the block editor
Found an accessibility related bug? Create a new ticket

For questions or support related to WordPress & accessibility, please visit the WordPress Accessibility forum.

Learn how to design, develop, and write accessible code in our Handbook – best practices.

In this Make WordPress Accessibility Handbook you will learn what the best practices are for web accessibility, the many great accessibility tools, the testing we do to improve WordPress, themes, and plugins, and how to get involved in WordPress accessibility.

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The Accessibility Team works to make WordPress accessible to as many people as possible. This means making sure people are not just able to read web pages but also to maintain websites.

You are a part of this mission. You benefit from this mission. So in the spirit of one of the largest open-source communities in the world, let’s work on universal accessibility.

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The Make WordPress Accessible Team needs your time and talent. Writers, documentarians, marketers, developers, copy editors, testers: anyone can help.

Join us. You’ll learn how to make WordPress, the right way.

Last updated: February 25, 2018

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