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WordPress 4.6 Improves the Accessibility of the Tag and Category Management Pages
Among the improvements coming in WordPress 4.6 are accessibility enhancements to the Category and Tag management pages. The flow of each page has been changed so that the visual order of elements match the tab order. This allows those who navigate with keyboards to access the Add New Tag or Add New Category area first.
New Broker System To Ease REST API Authentication Challenges
Since the beginning of the REST API project, authentication has been one of its biggest challenges. Co-founder of Human Made Joe Hoyle on Sunday announced the Authentication Broker System, a solution that aims to solve the decentralized registration problem.
WordPress 4.6 will Drop Open Sans in the Admin
Since 2013, WordPress has used Open Sans as the default font for the admin panel. For a number of years, Open Sans has been around, and considering the fact that Open Sans in itself is a really popular and pretty good-looking font, it has become a staple feature in the WordPress admin panel.
However, all of that is expected to change pretty soon. The upcoming version, WordPress 4.6, is planning to ditch Open Sans in favor of system fonts in the admin panel.