WP Accessibility

Changelog (registro delle modifiche)

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2.1.4

• Bug fix: Incorrect type check caused most stats to display as ‘no data’.
• Change: Only show first 5 changes on user stats in dashboard.

2.1.3

• Bug fix: Error thrown if a 3rd party is using the_title filters improperly.
• Bug fix: Handle case if passed data is invalid.
• Bug fix: Change dashboard widget function name to minimize conflict.
• Bug fix: Setting stats to ‘none’ should fully disable stats collection.
• Bug fix: Ensure that admin status is verified on server side when stats set to ‘admin’.

2.1.2

• Bug fix: Build error caused JS errors when not running in SCRIPT_DEBUG.

2.1.1

• Bug fix: Comparison of new stats to old stats didn’t remove timestamp, so comparison was always false.

2.1.0

• Bug fix: Fix label for attributes. Props @sabernhardt.
• Bug fix: Fix position of image alt attribute warnings.
• Bug fix: Prevent existence of alt warnings from breaking captions.
• Change: Render toolbar location relatively instead of absolutely.
• Change: Improve alt text tests.
• Change: Record count of occurrences for fake button/link tests.
• Change: Set wpa_lang option to on by default.
• Change: Switch auto labeling to always one.
• Change: Switch skiplink CSS to use default by default.
• Change: Remove setting for filtering title attributes and turn on by default.
• Change: Consolidate and minify JS.
• Feature: Add stats collection to provide view into what WP Accessibility is doing.

2.0.1

• Add .et_smooth_scroll_disabled to skip links to override Divi’s inaccessible smooth scrolling.
• Add promotional affiliate links for Equalize Digital’s Accessibility Checker

2.0.0

• New feature: Show alt attributes toggle on content images.
• New feature: Ensure users can adjust scale even if maximum-scale set to 1.0.
• New feature: Alt enforcement indicators now present in block editor.
• New feature: Flag missing captions or subtitles in uploaded videos in editor.
• Updated feature: Remove title attributes now more intelligent.
• Updated feature: Modernized alt attribute enforcement tools.
• Change: Combine remediation scripting in wp-accessibility.js.
• Change: Disable accessibility-ready duplicating features if theme changed to accessibility-ready.
• Bug fix: aria-expanded missing in some cases for longdesc disclosures.
• Bug fix: Main JS file did not have a version number.
• Bug fix: Run feature JS after running remediation JS.
• Bug fix: Fix DOM ordering with image disclosure buttons.
• Retired language directory call. Translation files haven’t been updated since version Oct 2014.

1.9.2

• Bug fix: Alignment classes should only apply when wpa-ld class present.
• Bug fix: Escape widget title content.
• Bug fix: Set cookies with SameSite = Strict. Props @ute-arbeit.
• Bug fix: Check that post_type param is in query object when searching alt attributes.

1.9.1

• Bug fix: Duplicate skiplink styles: if custom styles used, default settings could be appended to them as a duplicate.
• Filters: Add filters to configure deprecated skiplinks if necessary.
• Show default CSS when enabled for reference.

1.9.0

• Update: Significant reorganization of settings.
• Feature: Create & prepend simplified content summaries.
• Feature: Raise warning on long alt text.
• Feature: Generate color contrast via GET to make bookmarkable.
• Increase boldness of automatic focus outline.
• Set default focus outline color.
• Use wp_add_inline_styles for customizable CSS.
• Update automatic link underlines to skip nav elements.
• Bug fix: some incorrect textdomains.
• Bug fix: toolbar tooltips should be dismissable without changing focus or hover. Support esc key.
• Bug fix: Incorrect variable passed to color contrast, causing incorrect values.
• Auto generation of hook documentation: https://joedolson.github.io/wp-accessibility/

1.8.1

• Update: Fix accessibility issues in longdesc disclosure button.
• Add: style variations on longdesc disclosure to adjust position. (.top-left, .top-right, .bottom-right)
• Update tested to for WP 6.0.

1.8.0

• Update: tabindex check should not remove tabindex on a elements without href.
• Update: check for the button role on elements that are not focusable and add tabindex.
• Update: Larger longdesc button.
• Update admin script & css enqueuing.
• Change color picker.
• Make admin responsive.
• Admin text updates.
• Return false for accessible theme test if Oxygen Builder active.

1.7.14

• Bug fix: incorrectly called variable broke responsive toolbar.

1.7.13

• Bug fix: empty space in toolbar attachment point field created uncaught exception in JS.

1.7.12

• Bug fix: Improved automatic labeling; checks for existing aria-label or aria-labelledby values.
• Improved escaping and sanitizing.
• Change: add ‘no-scroll’ to skip links to prevent enfold from scrolling.
• Feature: Option to search media library on alternative text.
• Feature: Detect and replace user-scalable=no if found.

1.7.11

• Bug fix: Better handling of invalid toolbar attachment points.
• Change: Use title casing for Skip to Content link to clarify pronunciation by JAWS.
• New: Option to disable full screen block editor by default.

1.7.10

• Bug fix: If attachment ID not in classes, get from img ID attribute.
• Insert toolbar without jQuery.

1.7.9

• Bug fix: potentially undeclared variable in 1.7.8.

1.7.8

• Bug fix: Avoid showing longdesc interface if no description defined.
• Bug fix: Update screen reader text classes from antiquated versions.
• Removal: Adding role attributes to HTML5 structures is no longer significant.
• Removal: Remove option to make row actions visible. Now available via screen options in core.
• Removal: Remove tabindex=-1 on skiplink targets. No longer required.
• Improvement: Catch more potentially invalid or suspicious alt text patterns.
• Refactor: Move footer scripts into external JS file.

1.7.7

• Bug fix: Correct usage of wp_localize_script arguments.
• Change: Modernization of CSS for toolbar.
• Change: Add outline offset for forced focus states.
• Change: Tweaks for font resizing stylesheets.

1.7.6

• Bug fix: Broken class array query in longdesc.

1.7.5

• Bug fix: register_block_style only exists since WP 5.3; check function exists first.

1.7.4

• Change: mark   as an invalid alt value.
• Remove .hndle class on admin headings.
• Fix jQuery incompatibility due to deprecated .toggle() event handler.
• Add support for long description in the block editor.

1.7.3

• Bug fix: script registration/enqueuing mis-ordered, breaking toolbar.

1.7.2

• Add style to div.aligncenter to control width

1.7.1

• Bump tested to value.

1.7.0

• Add: test for specific common types of invalid alt attribute and label as invalid.
• Change: Remove webkit skiplink polyfill (obsolete)
• Change: Move toolbar JS to external file.
• Change: Use wp inline style method for toolbar size.
• Bug fix: Incorrect variable type matching in toolbar size setting.
• Security: Minor authenticated XSS vulnerability in custom CSS.

1.6.10

• Based on support for screen-reader-text class and current support for aria-current, shifting to aria only.

1.6.9

• Different JS for aria-current; previous version could only work on a single element, not a collection.

1.6.8

• Update to RegEx filtering title attributes to avoid data-title attributes. Thanks to @nextendweb
• Update PHP test suite to eliminate PHP 5.3 tests.
• Higher min/max sizes for toolbar buttons
• Remove setting for aria-current; now always enabled.

1.6.7

• Bug fix: error in generated CSS for skiplinks

1.6.6

• Per request, remove font sizing declaration for skip links. Inherit from site.
• Add default styles for visible skiplinks, rather than allowing to be unstyled.
• Remove tabindex application on section element from toolbar JS. (Not sure why it was there anyway.)
• Bug fix: automatic labeling injected double labels on fields with no ID and an implicit label.

1.6.5

• Bug fix: Widget output should not be styled.
• Bug fix: Remove duplicated (current) when both current-menu-item and -page-item present (props loopRW)

1.6.4

• Bug fix: Do not render longdesc UI when no longdesc provided.

1.6.3

• Bug fix: incorrect function name
• Bug fix: don’t use POST data directly when value is known

1.6.2

• Removed ‘ScrollTo’ JS.
• Changed toolbar font size setting from em to px for predictability.
• Updated ‘diagnostic.css’ to latest version.
• Removed ‘create_function’ for PHP 7.2 compatibility.
• Removed ‘extract’
• Code updated to conform to WordPress PHP standards
• Code restructuring.

1.6.1

• Fixed changelog, which read 1.5.11 instead of 1.6.0
• Fixed logic in widget version of toolbar so wouldn’t use buttons unless requested
• Update ‘tested to’ version.

1.6.0

• Bug fix: incorrect CSS style reference on longdesc template
• Re-enable Toolbar on Edge (slightly different from other browsers, but functional.)
• Hide grayscale from non-admins.
• Add note reflecting above
• Add feature: identify current menu item

1.5.10

• Disable Toolbar on Edge due to page not found bug.
• Modifications to toolbar JS
• Remove title attribute settings remove attributes no longer being produced.
• Some code clean up and restructuring.

1.5.9

• Bug fix: another swapped options check, elsewhere. Sigh.

1.5.8

• Bug fix: swapped options check for fontsize & contrast toggles
• Compatibility checked with 4.7

1.5.7

• Remove menu role from toolbar
• Fixed toolbar button font size adjustment
• Updated screen reader text class to include clip-path and whitespace
• Minor toolbar design tweaks
• Removed WordPress admin stylesheet (obsolete)
• Misc display fixes in settings
• Remove ‘Access Monitor’ admin notice
• Bug fix: Missing space in featured img HTML
• Bug fix: Switch main heading to H1

1.5.6

• Feature: Add support for longdesc in featured images.
• Feature: Option to enable only a single element in toolbar

1.5.5

• Bug fix: use aria-pressed on toolbar buttons. Props Jose Manuel (https://github.com/joedolson/wp-accessibility/pull/7)
• Bug fix: Don’t show logout link if user not logged in. Props @boonebgorges (https://github.com/joedolson/wp-accessibility/pull/9)
• Bug fix: Don’t assume that images with long descriptions have classes
• Text change to better describe content title attribute stripping.
• Add aria-label to skip link navigation region.
• Add role=menu to toolbar.
• Update readme.txt

1.5.4

• Bug fix: .fontsize default classes used immediate children selector, which was incompatible with the switch to using html as the parent selector.
• Change: Added option to hide toolbar on small screens.
• UI Change: Split Toolbar & Miscellaneous settings into separate sections.
• Updated informational and contributing links
• Re-ordered settings groups to better reflect need.
• Split settings into separate plug-in file.

1.5.3

• Bug fix: incorrect assignment of fontsize class on subsequent pages.
• Removal of en_AU and nl_NL languages in favor of completed language packs

1.5.2

• Bug fix: Add RTL version of editor styles
• Bug fix: incorrect textdomain on donate request
• Bug fix: Issue with :focus state on skiplinks when not always visible
• Bug fix: Install with no default focus styles; add custom styles to end of default focus styles string
• Bug fix: search filter could prevent display of nav menus (props @jdelia & @GaryJones)
• Bug fix: extraneous anchor generated in longdesc format (https://github.com/joedolson/wp-accessibility/issues/4)
• Add alternate font resizing stylesheet for improved use with rems
• Add support for selective refresh in customizer

1.5.1

• Add: :hover/:focus text describing toolbar buttons; replaces title attributes removed in 1.5.0
• Missing: Add woff2 call
• Bug fix: Re-order font format imports

1.5.0

• Updated toolbar fonts
• Updated toolbar to use button instead of a
• Improved fontsize increase default CSS. Most themes will still benefit from custom styles.
• Added option to place toolbar on right side of screen.
• Update load method for text domain
• WP A11y recent posts widget removed.

1.4.6

• Bug fix: Don’t create a duplicate ID when multiple longdesc attributes used on one page

1.4.5

• Add languages: Hungarian, English (Australian)
• Bug fix: Retain intended image when adding alt attribute missing warning.

1.4.4

• In WP 4.3, widgets with no settings are not saved. So…
• Added Title setting to WP Accessibility toolbar widget.

1.4.3

• Update widget constructors to use PHP5+ syntax.
• Add filter to disable or replace the fontsize styles for toolbar. ‘wpa_fontsize_css’. Return false to disable; return stylesheet URL to replace.

1.4.2

• Language update: Norwegian
• New feature: Automatically add labels to WordPress standard search form & comment forms if missing.

1.4.1

• Bug fix: warning thrown if current theme does not have any tags.
• Change: Use image to show ‘needs alt’, for easier deletion.
• Fix: text_direction deprecated in bloginfo
• Language updates: Spanish, Polish

1.4.0

• Added enforcement tools for alt attribute usage in images.
• Media lists indicate whether an image is marked as decorative, has an alt attribute, or needs an alt attribute.
• Media editor shows checkbox to mark as decorative when editing image media types.
• If an image is inserted into a post without either being marked as decorative or having an alt attribute provided, HTML will also insert a notice indicating that the image needs an alt attribute.
• If an image is inserted and is checked as decorative, the alt attribute will be set to an empty value.
• Language update: Spanish

1.3.11

• Bug fix: Longdesc styles not automatically enabled with longdesc options.
• Added detection for whether current theme is accessibility-ready
• Disabled some options if current theme is accessibility-ready.
• Added notice to inform users about Access Monitor
• Language add: Portuguese (Brazil)
• Language update: German

1.3.10

• Switch order in which skiplinks/accessibility toolbar are loaded into the DOM so skiplinks load last/appear first.
• Hide fields for WordPress title attribute removal on versions where they don’t apply.
• Language updates: Russian, Hebrew, Bulgarian

1.3.9

• Bug fix: skiplinks JS targeting
• Bug fix: incorrect textdomain in longdesc template
• Update or add translations: Dutch, French, Finnish, Russian, Bulgarian

1.3.8

• Feature: iconfont toolbar icons so icons can be resized Thanks Chris!
• Feature: define size of toolbar icons
• Feature: Assign tabindex=-1 to skiplink targets to ensure functionality of skiplinks.
• Bug fix: Switch template_redirect to template_include filter
• Redo file structure to move CSS into subdirectory.
• Update translations: French, German, Hebrew
• Add translations: Slovenian, Russian

1.3.7

• Typo fixed.
• Bug fix: If any skiplink field was filled in, skiplinks automatically displayed.

1.3.6

• Bug fix: When disabled, lang toggle removed language from HTML element
• Add RTL styles for a11y toolbar.

1.3.5

• Bug fix: Toolbar shortcode didn’t toggle Grayscale or Fontsize
• Documentation: Add documentation of shortcode/widget toolbar.

1.3.4

• Bug fix: Only enqueue stylesheets when settings require them.
• Bug fix: Search filter should only be applied on front-end
• Add SVG filter to provide grayscaling in Firefox
• Add Languages: Hebrew, Greek

1.3.3

• Bug fix: a11y.css issue collapsing toolbar buttons in Firefox
• Language: Update Italian.

1.3.2

• Feature: Check for HTML5 structural elements and insert ARIA landmark roles.
• Feature: Define ID of container to use for complementary role.
• Feature: Add styles to make placeholder text high-contrast in high-contrast stylesheet.
• Feature: Add option to force underlines on links
• Bug fix: use reply-to header in email support requests
• Bug fix: proper variable set up for high contrast stylesheet path
• Language: Add Portuguese (Portugal)

1.3.1

• Emended a JS comment that some plug-ins were treating as a node…
• Updated .pot file with long description strings.
• Bug fix: longdesc attribute added even if description field empty.

1.3.0

• Add long description support. Requested by John Foliot; based on https://wordpress.org/plugins/long-description-for-image-attachments/

1.2.9

• Bug fix: :focus states for skiplinks broken in 1.2.8.
• Bug fix: WP Accessibility admin color issue in WP 3.8+
• Auto-hide grayscale in Firefox even if enabled. See: https://gist.github.com/amandavisconti/8455507
• Made accessibility toolbar available via widget or shortcode [wpa_toolbar]
• Add Language: Romanian, by Adrian Tamasan
• Updated language: Dutch

1.2.8

• Bug fix: support for languages with right-to-left reading order.

1.2.7

• For 3.8, eliminate outdated title attribute filters. (nav menus, page lists, edit post links, edit comment links, category links)
• Add Dutch translation by Rian Rietveld

1.2.6

• Truly hides grayscale option, not dependent on CSS.
• Eliminates in-page anchor focusing, due to conflicts with plug-ins that attach scripts to links with hashes.
• Remove row action visibility from default admin stylesheet, due to 3.7 changes making those links keyboard accessible.
• Added row actions always visible option.

1.2.5

• Added Spanish translation.
• Added incomplete Finnish translation.
• Updated French translation.
• Bug fix: WP Accessibility disabled ability to use theme styles in TinyMCE editor.

1.2.4.1

• Minor settings bug.

1.2.4

• Added diagnostic.css (beta) for admin users on front end and in post editor.
• Bug fix in a11y.js; incorrect function call in scrollTo.
• Bug fix in a11y.js; removed hook to # urls
• Added visible logout link to admin to support users of voice activated controls.
• Bug fix to built-in support request form.
• Added filter wpa_move_toolbar to make it possible to attach a11y toolbar to something other than the body element.
• Added French translation.

1.2.3

• Updated jQuery ScrollTo to version 1.4.5 to resolve JS conflict.
• Updated method of accessing $ in jQuery.
• Added CDATA blocks so WP Accessibility doesn’t prevent validation as XML.
• Added Italian translation, courtesy of Roberto Scano.

1.2.2

• Bug fix: compatibility issue with PageLines framework.

1.2.1

• Disabled grayscale toggle in Accessibility toolbar by default due to poor browser support and low functional value. (Can still be enabled by user.)
• Removed php notice in title- recent posts widget
• Updated German and added Polish translations

1.2.0

• Added space between content output and continue reading text in excerpt context.
• Added German translation
• Added Accessibility Toolbar (Source)
• Added WP admin stylesheet:
• Some contrast improvements.
• Placed post row action links (Edit, Quick Edit, Trash, View) into screen reader visible and keyboard usable position.
• Added underlines to links on hover
• Supports your own custom wp-admin stylesheet via your Theme directory.

1.1.2

• Update support statement to WP 3.5.0
• Add role=’navigation’ to skiplinks container.

1.1.1

• Bug fix: extra template loaded when search template is inserted.
• Bug fix: jQuery not always loaded when required.

1.1.0

• Added ability to add focus outline in :focus pseudo class.
• Added color contrast tool.
• Added settings link to plugins listing.
• Added link to translations site for this plug-in.
• Improved response for forcing search error on empty search submission.
• Bug fix for adding custom skip link.

1.0.0

• Initial release!