WCAG 2.2 AA Compliance Pass on a WordPress Marketing Site

A regional professional services firm needed their WordPress marketing site brought up to WCAG 2.2 AA compliance ahead of a procurement requirement. Initial audit surfaced six remediation areas spanning keyboard navigation, focus management, color contrast, link naming, and motion/auto-play behavior on the homepage hero carousel.

I scoped the work into six discrete subtasks and implemented all fixes in the child theme (no plugin sprawl, no parent theme edits). Hero carousel needed pause-on-hover plus a visible pause control to satisfy WCAG 2.2.2 (Pause, Stop, Hide). Several findings were resolved with targeted CSS overrides; others required JS event handlers and PHP filter hooks. All changes were namespaced and documented for future maintainers.

Stack: WordPress, child theme (CSS / JS / PHP filters), WCAG 2.2 AA standard, axe DevTools + manual keyboard testing.

Outcome: All six WCAG 2.2 AA findings resolved. Carousel motion control added (2.2.2). Code shipped in child theme for portability across future parent theme updates. ~5 billable hours.

Tags: Accessibility, WCAG 2.2, ADA compliance, WordPress, a11y audit, remediation