The WordPress development team is planning to update WP’s media handling in the next version. Via WordPress › Blog » Vote for 2.9 Media Features, “A large percentage of the requests we get from users are for more/better media features, so we’ve decided to focus 2.9 on building an infrastructure for improved media handling that we can continue to build on in versions to come. In that vein, we need your input to determine which features to prioritize and build sooner rather than later.” So they have a short survery about priorities for improving WP’s media handling. None of the eleven options mention accessibility, so I encourage you to fill in the text box at the bottom requesting improved accessibility handling. I suggested that they make it easy for us to make our blogs screen-reader friendly and make al-text tags obvious and recommended (if not required). Please help out!

Tags: accessibility, media, survey, wordpress

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