Accessibility Ready: Theming for a larger audience

With WordPress 3.8, the theme repository supports a tag called ‘accessibility-ready’, to promote and identify themes that make it possible to build an accessible web site with WordPress. Learn what it takes to make a theme meet the accessibility-ready guidelines — and why we can’t call any theme “accessible.”

About Joe Dolson

I'm a WordPress plug-in developer and a web accessibility consultant. I'm part of the Make WordPress Accessible team, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem. I'm self-employed, but since fall 2022 I've had part-time sponsorship from GoDaddy to contribute to WordPress. In March 2025, I also welcomed sponsorship from Kinsta to expand my ability to contribute.