Accessible Login – WCAG AA Login & Registration

1.0.5

Released: 2026-06-23

• Admin: changed the sidebar menu icon from the generic accessibility glyph to a key (dashicons-admin-network), which better signals a login/registration plugin. Cosmetic admin-only change.

1.0.4

Released: 2026-06-23

• Admin: WordPress admin notices (e.g. the core “Search engine visibility” notice) now appear above the settings-page header band instead of inside it, by adding a wp-header-end marker. Settings-screen only; no front-end or functional changes.

1.0.3

Released: 2026-06-23

• Accessibility (WCAG 1.3.1 / region best practice): all login-screen content is now contained within landmarks. The tagline and footer text (printed after the form) are wrapped in a

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footer> contentinfo landmark, and WordPress’s screen-reader “Log In” heading is moved into the landmark. Resolves the AXE “All page content should be contained by landmarks” findings. No settings or visual changes.

1.0.2

Released: 2026-06-20

• Listing tidy-up: simplified the display name (removed “2.2” from the title), moved the Links section to the foot of the listing, added a Live demo link after the intro, and removed a duplicated author-credit paragraph. No functional or code changes; settings and behaviour are unchanged.

1.0.1

Released: 2026-06-19

• Display name updated to “Accessible Login – WCAG 2.2 AA Login & Registration” for clarity and discoverability. No functional or code changes; settings and behaviour are unchanged.
• readme links and documentation references refreshed.

1.0.0

Released: 2026-05-28

First public release.

• Full WCAG 2.2 Level AA experience across all four screens — login, lost-password, password-reset and registration — developed and tested with the Deque AXE engine, Google Lighthouse, and the JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and TalkBack screen readers.
• Ten accessible colour palettes plus full per-colour control through the WordPress colour picker, each maintaining AA contrast.
• Optional custom backend login URL (off by default) with a reserved-word blocklist; when enabled it can return 404 on /wp-login.php for unauthenticated visitors to block automated brute-force scanners.
• Logo upload with configurable dimensions, alt text and link target; ships with a neutral, locally-served default placeholder logo (no external requests).
• Five layout styles, background image / overlay / pattern controls, and typography control with a 16 px minimum.
• Accessible show/hide password toggle (SC 3.3.8), Caps Lock screen-reader warning, ARIA error announcements, a 3 px focus ring with 2 px offset (SC 2.4.11 / 2.4.13), and a configurable 44 x 44 px default target size (SC 2.5.8).
• Reflows cleanly at 320 px and at 200% / 400% zoom (SC 1.4.4 / 1.4.10); honours prefers-reduced-motion and Windows forced-colors mode.
• Structured, WCAG-bounded layout controls (corner radius, form width and padding, input height, button weight, focus-indicator width, card-shadow toggle). The plugin does not accept arbitrary CSS, JavaScript or PHP.
• All dynamic CSS is delivered through the WordPress stylesheet enqueue system; no inline style or script blocks are printed into the login markup.
• Settings export / import via JSON, reset-to-defaults, a first-run setup wizard, and a user-controlled clean-uninstall option (multisite-aware).
• Independently audited against WCAG 2.2 AA and remediated; default settings are seeded from a bundled JSON file so a fresh install is accessibility-clean out of the box.
• Requires WordPress 5.9 or higher.
• Translation-ready with the ananyoo-accessible-login text domain.