How to assess plugin accessibility - WordPress Tutorial

- [Instructor] WordPress plugins bring us into the funhouse mirror world WordPress. Anything you think you know aout what WordPress does may no longer be true. What about plugins makes this happen, and what is the impact of this change on accessibility? To get a grasp on this issue, you need to know a little about how WordPress plugins work. Think about some plugins you've used in the past. Some of the plugins are features, like contact forms. Others might implement changes to existing features, like implementing an Ajax-driven live search or adding custom accordion blocks. All of these plugins are taking advantage of the rich network of actions and filters throughout WordPress. This is the method used by plugins to change how WordPress works. An action is where your code performs a task at a particular time in the WordPress code. And a filter is where your code changes output or variables when they are being used by…