Title: Gallery Accessibility
Last modified: February 18, 2026

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# Gallery Accessibility

 *  Resolved [astarich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astarich/)
 * (@astarich)
 * [1 month, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-accessibility/)
 * Hello,
 * Previously you worked on improving accessibility for the Carousel and Image Viewer
   galleries in response to an [earlier thread I submitted](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/carousel-and-image-viewer-foogallery-accessibility/).
   Thank you for working on making this plugin more accessible!
 * My team did another check on gallery options your plugin provides to make sure
   that the previously mentioned accessibility concerns were resolved since the 
   ticket was closed before the release and we wanted to see if anything else arose
   in that follow-up check that would prevent us from being able to continue to 
   use FooGallery.
 * I wanted to forward on my team’s findings on some things that still need resolution.
   Our websites still must be WCAG 2.1 AA compliant and by relation the plugins 
   we use must also be complaint for us to be able to continue to use them. There
   were still a few things flagged by tools we have been using for checking accessibility(
   WAVE plugin for chrome, NVDA, etc.).
 * Existing Accessibility Concerns:
    - We are seeing caption text color get darker on hover in the masonry layout.
      This would seem to indicate a link, but none is present. This could cause 
      similar user confusion to the previous issue (that thanks to your team is 
      now fixed) where a pointer was showing when users hovered over captions.
    - Focus indicators are missing on the image viewer previous and next buttons.
      A 2px solid black border on focus would resolve this concern.
    - Focus indicators are also missing on carousel pagination “buttons” (the round
      interactable dots). Similar to the above missing focus indicator a 2px solid
      black border on focus would resolve this concern. We could hide the pagination
      buttons, but it would be nice to show them so users have an idea of how many
      images are in the carousel. There are focus indicators on carousel arrows 
      which is good (thank you for fixing this).
    - WAVE flags an error for images with no alt text in the masonry and justified
      galleries. This is because all masonry images are “linked” images (even when
      there is no href), implying a function.
       * The wrapping <a></a> tags get flagged as this being viewed as an interactive
         element even if an image might be considered decorative and alt text is
         not being used.
       * When using the NVDA screen reader, images in the justified gallery are 
         read as “Figure link” and “linked caption” before reading captions as well
         which could be confusing even when links are turned off in the settings
         for this gallery type.
    - The Image Viewer gallery’s “# of #” text for indicating pagination in the 
      gallery has an orphaned form label alert from WAVE. Previous and next buttons
      have a redundant title text alert.
       * A side note: It seems important to enable “loop images” in the image viewer
         general settings. Otherwise, for example, the previous button is presented
         as an interactive element but is not actually interactive at image “1 of
         X”.
 * Are these additional items something the FooGallery team would be open to looking
   into and remediating in a future release?

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 *  Plugin Author [bradvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradvin/)
 * (@bradvin)
 * [1 month, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-accessibility/#post-18841896)
 * hi [@astarich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astarich/)
 * Thanks for submitting this topic, and apologies for the delay in response.
 * We are always open to making improvements to FooGallery and are genuinely keen
   to make it 100% accessible. The problem we face comes down to deciding how we
   implement these changes, because we cannot release an update to 100K+ sites that
   will change the way galleries look for our existing users. It therefore has to
   be an opt-in via a setting. This then introduces complexity because making some
   of these changes is a broad change that requires updates to CSS, JS and PHP.
 * Having said all that, we are going to commit and put this on our roadmap to get
   out in a future release. If you are keen to collaborate with us more closely 
   and help us test a beta version, then please reach out directly and we can stay
   in touch : brad @ fooplugins . com
 * I will therefore close this topic

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 * Last activity: [1 month, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-accessibility/#post-18841896)
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