{"id":368,"date":"2012-05-16T05:44:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2012-05-16T05:44:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:44:54","slug":"word-press-v3-3-2-dashboard-access-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/word-press-v3-3-2-dashboard-access-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Press v3.3.2 dashboard access issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let this blog post serve as a cautionary tale for all of my readers, but most especially for those of you who use screen readers.  So as to avoid losing you to mind-numbing boredom, I’ll just cut right to the chase:  Never update your Word Press blog until well after a million others have already done so.<\/p>\n

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Skipping…skipping…welcome to my nightmare.<\/p>\n

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The latest version of Word Press offers a super-cool new flyout style dashboard that is not accessible.  According to WP support (see the comment thread here<\/a>), the flyout menus "are accessible & do meet access guidelines if you are using the latest version of JAWS (or at least that’s what the last round of testing appeared to indicate) but that may not be the case with other screen reader software."<\/p>\n

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Can we all just ponder that a moment?  Ahem.  Not everyone uses Jaws.  Just for laughs, and to toss in my two cents, my own testing \u201cappears to indicate\u201d it does not work with the latest version of ZoomText, or the latest version of NVDA, both of which I use.  Hey, I ought to try it with Narrator, see what happens.<\/p>\n

So that you know, and so that I can save you from grief, the recommended plugin mentioned in the support thread does not work with my configuration, either.  I’m running Win 7 on a PC with IE 8.  Quit laughing.<\/p>\n

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I’ve actually tried two different plugins that purport to make the WP dashboard more accessible, but no luck.  If you find a solution to this latest access annoyance, besides schooling me on the benefits of being an Apple user, please comment and share.  So many will be so grateful, most of all me.  By the way, don\u2019t bother asking just any random WP \u201cguru\u201d about this.  Believe me, they\u2019ll treat you like you\u2019re insane.  Just don\u2019t go there, it\u2019s a pathway to madness.  Only a screen reader user is going to understand this problem, not someone who claims to know about web accessibility and Word Press.  Let\u2019s start writing to the good folks at WP, or appeal to the many genius plugin developers out there.  <\/p>\n

I\u2019m growing tired of playing \u201cmenu roulette.\u201d  Come on, code cowboys (and cowgirls), drop a few lines of those mysterious symbols, letters and numbers that look to me as if you slammed your fist down on the keyboard, and I\u2019ll be the first to promote it for you.  That is, if I can manage to install it with the magical invisible dashboard.  <\/p>\n

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LL<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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