WordPress Accessibility team published report on Accessibility Status of Gutenberg on October 30, 2018. The team collaborated on assessment that challenged Gutenberg's for the core.. By those who relies on assistive technology, the team concluded that they cannot recommend to use Gutenberg.. According to the post on Accessibility Status of Gutenberg, The Accessibility team like any WordPress has no authority over the project. The ability to author, edit, and publish posts is the primary purpose of WordPress... On behalf of the team, that working on Gutenberg consisted of cognitive loag and complexity, behavior, heavy reliance on keyboard shortcuts and difficulties with navigation through blocks. We do not want to miss the opportunity to build modern and application for WordPress, except order to achieve that goal, accessibility needs to be incorporated in all design processes in the project.. Gutenberg is now 20 days away from landing WordPress 5.0, and this does not leave enough time to solve the design and architectural issues the team has identified. They have proposed notice on the 5.0 release to inform administrators of Gutenberg's inadequacy for users of technology, with prompt to install Classic Editor plugin. Dolson concluded the post with, The team will continue to work to support Gutenberg to the best of our ability.
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