Category: Features
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How can I translate the WP ADA Compliance Check plugin
Our plugins are configured to use WordPress Translation and a Poedit (POT) file has been provided to facilitate translation to the desired language. Complete the following steps to translate your website: Download the free Poedit editor Find the provided PO file in the languages folder of the wp-ada-compliance archive Open wp-ada-compliance-en_EN.po using Poedit Choose “Create…
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Stop Users from Publishing Content With Accessibility Issues
If your digital services aren’t accessible to everyone, you’re effectively shutting out up to 61 million people, or one in four U.S. adults living with a disability. Not only do accessibility errors on your website result in barriers for website users they can result in lawsuits and impact the reputation of your business. Correcting existing…
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Custom Content Filter Hook
The WP ADA Compliance Check plugin includes the “wp_ada_compliance_change_the_content_callback” hook that can be used to change website content as the page loads. It supports a single parameter that is set to the page content. This filter is applied to the content after the WP ADA Compliance Check does its own filtering to allow you to…
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Enabling Cron Scans on your Website
WP ADA Compliance includes an option to scan your website using WordPress cron. Not only are cron scans a convenient way to locate issues on your website but they use less server resources. Complete the following steps to enable cron scans on your website: First ensure that your webiste is configured to execute cron jobs…
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Elementor ADA Compliance
Elementor is a popular WordPress page builder plugin. It is not limited to page design only, but allows you to build your entire websites. Any part of a WordPress theme can be edited and customized. By using the Elementor editor to drag and drop widgets onto your page, you can a save time, work more…
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WCAG 2.2 & Section 508 Compliance
The WP ADA Compliance Plugin evaluates content for WCAG 2.1, WCAG 2.2 or Section 508 Web Accessibility Standards. For each issue that is detected, easy to follow instructions are provided along with error references and links to additional information to improve understanding of the problem. Since not all issues can be automatically detected, the plugin…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) detects and corrects many issues automatically.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) built into the WP ADA Compliance Check Plugin detects and corrects many issue automatically. Developers can use the custom content filter hook to correct issues in plugin and theme content that would normally be difficult or impossible to resolve. Included content filters: Notifies users when a link opens a new window, PDF…
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How do the WP ADA Compliance Check content filters work?
The WP ADA Compliance Check plugin filters page content, correcting issues, as the page is loaded rather than changing the database content. This ensures that there are never any irreversible changes made to the content. You have total control of the content and issues that are filtered from the Content Filters tab on the settings…
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Adding Skip Links to a Website
A skip (navigation) link provides a way for users of assistive technology to skip what can often be many navigation links. This skip link should go right after the body tag, (it should be the first thing a keyboard user would tab to on your web page). Hide the skip link from sighted users but ensure that…
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Correcting Missing or Incorrectly Labeled Landmarks
Landmarks provide a way to identify the organization and structure of a web page. The structural information conveyed visually to users should be represented programmatically in the markup using landmark roles. The number and type of landmarks that should be used varies but normally each page will have one header, one footer, one main, one…