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The Art of Accessibility

The Keith W. Bell site, at first glance, appeared clean and professional, albeit perhaps fittingly plain. Once we started exploring more deeply, kicking the site’s tires and looking under the hood, so to speak, we quickly came to the conclusion that this is one top-notch piece of work. If you derive pleasure from looking at well-structured code and thoughtful features not overdone, you’re going to love it. And if you need the Keith W. Bell site to be accessible: it’s access granted.

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WordPress’ handling of empty site search inputs is far from satisfactory. Because the search form references the overall site address, submission of an empty search causes the site’s home page to be displayed. No error report. Nothing to indicate what has happened. Nada. Zilch. Nothing!

The solution, however, is blindingly simple and merely involves a few, fairly simple, changes to three WordPress theme files.

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The Raspberry Frog site has a very contemporary, well structured design that compliments both the branding direction as well as the favorable user experience. The brand of the site focuses on the “raspberry” theme quite effectively with the consistent use of the color in it’s imagery, graphics, and text throughout. As well, the overall visual structure of the site makes it simple for the user to absorb the content effectively. This is done by the choice of the graphics used to create the content’s containers, mainly with the secondary content on the left side. As an added bonus, not many sites have their secondary content to the left of the main content. With the visual structure, it works quite well.

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Many sites are built using WordPress (WP) as the content management system (CMS). Not just blogs but full-blown ecommerce sites and others. The power and flexibility of WP is evident by these implementations. And speaking of implementations, it was used as the CMS for a site recently built as a Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 implementation, to the level of AAA (one of two in the world with the other being Vision Australia). To learn more about that, here’s a short summary of the experience. This article is about WordPress’s end of things.

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