PE Panels and PE Recent Posts WordPress plugins accessibility improved for keyboard interaction.
We are happy to announce that PE Recent - recent posts WordPress plugin and PE Panels - tabs and accordion WordPress plugin just have been updated and brings several important fixes and improvements.
What changed?
PE Recent Posts changelog - 1.2 version
- Fixed REST API and Loopback errors - the error appeared when displaying posts ordering was set on "Most read".
- Improved keyboard navigation according to WCAG guidelines
PE Panels changelog - 1.07 version
- Fixed not possible highlighting and selecting text in the tab panel
- Fixed keeping active the chosen tab while selecting text in the tab panel (for mobile views)
- Improved keyboard navigation according to WCAG guidelines
Improved keyboard navigation according to WCAG guidelines
Both plugins include the important improvement for keyboard navigation recommended by https://www.w3.org/
We took into account the following scenarios.
- For PE Panels once the "Tabbed" view is ON we introduced the option for Tabs with Automatic Activation (excepting Delete key). PE Panels Tabs orientation can be also changed into a horizontal layout so we used the principles from the general practices for Tabs
- For PE Panels once "Collapsed" view is ON we introduced principles for Accordion adjustments
- For PE Recent Posts for "bullets" and prev/next navigation set separately we used Basic and Tabbed options mentioned in Carousel recommended practices.
A more detailed tutorial showing how it works use we are going to demonstrate in the separate article - it will available soon :)