How to Enable Accessibility Mode for WordPress Widgets

The WordPress platform maintains a commitment to Accessibility so that anyone can have access to pages, including those who are visually impaired, handicapped, users on mobile devices as well as those trying to connect to the Internet with old browsers and dial up connections.

WordPress has a built-in accessibility mode that can be turned on and off for the widgets page. If you’re ever stuck in a situation where you can’t move your widgets through drag-and-drop, you can quickly and easily turn on “Accessibility Mode” through the Screen Options menu:

When accessibility mode is turned on you’ll be able to manipulate your widgets using the “Add” and “Edit” links:

You may not use this option very much right now, but someday when you’re in a pinch on a mobile device that doesn’t support drag-and-drop, just remember that you still have a way to use your widgets.

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Comments (3)

  1. “[Y]ou can quickly and easily turn on “Accessibility Mode” through the Screen Options menu”
    Yep, that’s what WordPress help says, so I must be missing something. Using WordPress 3.2.1, my “screen options” are:
    Show on screen:
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    Nothing about accessibility options. I wonder if I inadvertently disabled something.

    Thanks for this WordPress Experts site. I was trying to find help by searching wordpress.org, but the discussion there seems to be about much earlier WP versions.

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