THIS WORDPRESS PLUGIN IS CURRENTLY BROKEN AND IT IS NOT REFLECTING THE CURRENT RELEASE YET. MORE UPDATE/ANOUNCEMENT WILL BE MADE ON 2021.
This plugin replaces the default WordPress editor with A11yFirst editor, which is built on CKEditor For more information, please visit A11yFirst Project site, Project code repositories and distribution repo
- Tags: accessibility, post, wysiwyg, CKEditor, A11yFirst, editor, rich text, rte, rich text editor, content authoring
A11yFirst Editor v0.6.0 is currently incorporated into current WordPress plugin. The Wordpress plugin will be updated with v.0.7.2 by the end of March 2018.
A11yFirst Editor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It's a WYSIWYG editor, which means the text being edited looks as similar as possible to the page once published. In particular, goals of A11yFirst Editor are
- Accessible authoring versus remediation.
- Support accessibility as content is created.
- Teach authors about accessibility.
- Change how people think about creating content.
Live demo is available at https://a11yfirst.library.illinois.edu/. Please click "try it out" to see recent updates.
- Replace the default WordPress editor with A11yFirst editor based on CKEditor Source
- Ensure accessible content creation
- Tested for Wordpress Version: 4.8.5
- Tested for Multi Wordpress site
- Down load the file from A11yFirst Project Wordpress Plugin Repo
- Rename the folder name, "a11yfirsteditor" to distinguish from other wordpress plugin for now.(This step would not be neceesary soon.)
- Upload this plugin to the
/wp-content/plugins/
directory. For more info, please see WordPress documentation, how to installing plugin - Manual Plugin Installation information - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. For more info, how to activate a plugin in WordPress
Create a page or a post to see A11yFirst editor toolbar. Happy accessible content creation!
The plugin will be maintained as new release comes out. A11yFirst Editor v0.6.0 is incorporated into current WordPress plugin and it wil be updated with v.0.7.2 by the end of April 2018. If you would like to contribute the development of A11yFirst Plugins or just help in developing a component used, please contact me: jku /at/ illinois.edu
For anyone willing to contribute the A11yFirst plugin: the code is now available on GitHub. Anyone is welcome to contribute.
- Inital beta release V0.6.0 Beta - 1.03.2018
Contributors: JaEun Jemma Ku, Robert Slater, Nicholas Hoyt
This worked is based on the work of CKEditor WordPress Plugin by wiktor, vokiel, michal_cksource, dczepierga, Dean Lee.
Licensed under the GPL license. License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html