Design help, screenreader friendly accessible theme for blogging / WP based?

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brianant

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Hi X10 family, anyone able to guide/assist? I'm aiming to promote 2 or 3 businesses I have on a single web site, evolving a few blog pages on it too, and want it to look corporate but informal/attractive. I'm blind though, so I want a Wordpress theme to be accessible if possible. I say Wordpress as I may want to add off shelf add-ons for capture pages for example later, so the 'add-in/plug-in' facility might be useful.
Can anyone suggest a theme or the most accessible blog install scripts offered on the x10 site for my site??
There is no keyword match for screenreader or accessibility hardly in the entire community, so perhaps I'm the first blind user, but if anyone out there knows about accessibility, and could fast track me to start trying a blog install script/theme that may be compatible for me, then I'd be very grateful.
I'm using the Jaws screenreader on Windows 7 out of interest.
Many thanks!
 

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There are several themes that claim to be "accessibility-ready" at https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/accessibility-ready/ - but I won't vouch for any of them without doing a lot of testing first. A big part of my problem with blogging software and content management systems in general is that they are almost deliberately opposed to accessibility; everything is based on appearance controlled via styles and edited using a what-you-see-is-what-you-get type of editor rather than appropriate HTML tagging. While these themes may work for the screen reader crowd, they probably won't work very well at all for low-vision users or for the people who use Braille terminals.
 
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