WordPress 7.0 continues to polish accessibility across WordPress Core and Gutenberg, advancing the goals to meet accessibility standards. WordPress 7.0 includes fixes across the platform, improving media management, usability for voice control, and improvements to color contrast with the new admin color scheme. The editor ships with new blocks and improvements to editor navigation and…

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WordPress 7.0 ships 24 Core accessibility enhancements and 16 Gutenberg fixes targeting WCAG 2.2 AA compliance. Core improvements cover media library voice control support, automatic import of alt text from IPTC photo metadata, color contrast fixes in the admin dashboard and themes, and screen reader verbosity improvements. Gutenberg gains keyboard navigation for DataViews grids, forced-colors mode support, gallery lightbox accessibility, a new Icons block, Connectors screen, and visual revisions — all reviewed for accessibility before shipping.

Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 7.0