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Scroll-progress stopwatch inspired by Ryan Mulligan’s scroll-driven animation experiment and adapted for this WordPress resource template.

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Accessibility Review Starter Guide

A starter review for checking headings, keyboard flow, focus visibility, labels, contrast, media text, and common WordPress template issues.

Accessibility

This starter guide gives teams a practical first accessibility pass for WordPress pages and reusable front-end components.

Use this when

  • A page or block is ready for QA.
  • The team needs to catch common accessibility issues before launch.
  • A design needs review beyond visual polish.

Starter review checklist

  • Check that headings follow a meaningful order.
  • Use the keyboard to move through navigation, filters, forms, and buttons.
  • Confirm visible focus states are easy to see.
  • Review form labels, helper text, and error messages.
  • Check color contrast for text, buttons, badges, and muted copy.
  • Confirm images have useful alt text or are intentionally decorative.

Interactive component checks

  1. Can the component be reached with a keyboard?
  2. Can it be operated without a mouse?
  3. Does focus move in a predictable order?
  4. Is the current state communicated visually and semantically?
  5. Does the component still work at small screen widths?

Common issues to watch for

  • Buttons or links that only communicate state with color.
  • Icon-only controls without accessible names.
  • Form errors that are visually present but hard to associate with fields.
  • Custom interactions that work with a mouse but not a keyboard.

Quality check

  • Do not rely on color alone to communicate state.
  • Test interactive components in their real template context.
  • Document remaining issues clearly if they require a deeper audit.

Trusted references

Further reading

A few trusted references for teams that want to go deeper.