Core Forms 4.3.6 | Gatilab Products

Accessibility floor for every Core Form (and Core Poll) input.

This release is about making the default Core Form accessible by default — not "accessible if the author remembers to opt in." Whether you load only the skeleton (forms.css), only the themed stylesheet (form-theme.css), or both, the floor holds.

What's in

44 × 44 CSS px touch target on every form control. WCAG 2.5.5 AAA target size. Applied to every text-type input, select, textarea, and button in both stylesheets so the rule survives whether the theme is loaded, disabled, or partially overridden.
Windows High Contrast Mode-safe keyboard focus. The themed :focus-visible state used to be outline: none + coloured box-shadow — HCM strips the box-shadow and the ring vanishes. Now :focus-visible pairs the box-shadow with a transparent 2px outline; HCM forces the transparent outline to the system focus colour, so keyboard users on HCM still see a ring.
Accessibility baseline in forms.css. Authors who disable the form theme used to drop back to a bare browser stylesheet. The skeleton now ships a tiny accessibility section at the top — 44px target, currentColor focus outline, prefers-reduced-motion transition kill-switch — so disabling the theme doesn't disable accessibility.
Textareas are 5 lines tall by default. Browsers ship rows="2" which is comically short for paragraph answers. Both stylesheets now set min-height: calc(5lh + 22px) (with a 140px px fallback for older browsers) — textareas grow with the host theme's line-height instead of being pinned to a px value.

Asset loading

Form and poll stylesheets now print at the bottom of <head>. Enqueue priority bumped from 20 → 99 so wp_enqueue_style calls land after the host theme's. WordPress prints in enqueue order → Core Forms styles cascade over theme styles cleanly, no !important, no specificity arms race.
Poll CSS is back in <head>. poll-frontend.css used to enqueue inside render_poll_shortcode() during the_content — after wp_head had already printed — so it landed in the footer. PollFrontend::maybe_enqueue_detected_poll_assets() now pre-scans for core-forms/poll blocks and [cf_poll] shortcodes at wp_enqueue_scripts priority 99 and pre-enqueues the stylesheet. Lands in <head> on poll pages, omitted entirely everywhere else.

Upgrading

Just update. If a textarea on a live form previously sat awkwardly between 2 and 4 lines, it'll now be a comfortable 5; everything else is non-visual or strictly additive.

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