Fully accessible admin
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accessibility
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- 12
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Description
Work towards making Wagtail’s accessibility world-class – stellar feedback from users of assistive technologies on the admin interface. Full compliance with relevant standards: WCAG, ATAG. View our latest Accessibility Conformance Report. Current progress (Wagtail 7.0 LTS):
| Conformance Level | Web | Electronic Documents | Software | Authoring Tool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supports | 70 | 63 | 0 | 49 |
| Partially Supports | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Does Not Support | 0 | 9 | 0 | 12 |
| Not Applicable | 13 | 14 | 86 | 13 |
Intended outcome
- 100% WCAG 2.2 AA conformance across all of Wagtail’s built-in features as documented in the Wagtail user guide
- 100% ATAG 2.0 Part A AA conformance
- Good feedback from real-world users across Wagtail’s assistive technologies support targets
More information
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the latest Accessibility Conformance Report and the Wagtail accessibility team audits and reports. Compare the documented gaps against WCAG 2.2 AA and ATAG 2.0 Part A, along with the assistive technology support targets. Done means the built-in features meet the stated conformance goals and receive positive feedback from real-world users.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- accessibility
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100