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Website Accessibility Consulting, Training, and Development
In this presentation, Meg "Memi" Miller, lead designer, developer and accessibility specialist for Bet Hannon Business Websites, spoke about alt text. How do you write beneficial alt text, and how do you know when it's best not to? Meg discussed how ...
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In this presentation, Dacey Nolan, software engineer at Trainual and Alex Zlaktus, Designer at Trainual, talked about Epilepsy barriers with the web and accessible design systems. First, Dacey discusses how epilepsy "seizure disorders" have barriers ...
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In this presentation, Joe Dolson, WordPress core committer, WordPress plugin developer, and web accessibility consultant, spoke about how you can contribute to the WordPress Accessibility community as a developer, designer, or tester. Thanks to ...
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In this presentation, Karl Groves, Founder and President at Tenon, spoke about one of the bigger challenges when it comes to managing accessibility. How do you create a score in a way that accurately reflects how usable a product is for users with ...
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In this presentation, we celebrated the Global Accessibility Awareness Day by having a panel discussion with Mark McGuire, Alicia Jarvis, and Devin Gutierrez, where they talked about their experiences using the web while giving feedback and insights ...
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In this presentation, Daniel Schutzsmith, Website and Digital Project Manager at Pinellas County, shared tips, and tools, and discussed the process of a large government website deployment with thousands of pieces of content across almost 100 ...
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In this presentation, Matisse Hamel-Nelis, VP of Communications for AbleDocs, walked us through the ins and outs of how to make our social media content accessible on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Thanks to Our Sponsors Empire ...
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In this presentation, Cam Beaudoin, President at A11y Coder, talked about how to create web forms that are more accessible and usable, as well as how to follow development best practices and ensure functionality for as many audiences as ...
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In this presentation, Nicolas Steenhout, blogger, podcaster, and public speaker, featured important aspects of accessibility that aren't as well known as others. He used findings from usability testing as well as quotes from disabled user experience ...
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In this presentation, Lainey Feingold, a disability rights lawyer and author who has been practicing in this space for more than 25 years, talked about the fundamentals of why accessibility is a civil right of disabled people and shared up-to-date ...
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In this presentation, Ronnie Burt, Sensei LMS lead at Automattic, talks about accessibility best practices inside the content editor for posts and pages. Thanks to Our Sponsors Empire Caption Solutions strives to create inclusive experiences ...
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In this presentation, Sally Thoun, Head of Partnerships and Sales at AAAtraq, talked about her journey learning WordPress and Accessibility. Then we move on to a guided community discussion of tips and resources for learning accessibility. Thanks ...
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In this presentation, Alex Stine, DevOps Engineer & Accessibility Consultant, and Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, performed a live accessibility audit of the popular WordPress donation plugin, GiveWP and provided real-time feedback to ...
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In this presentation, Carie Fisher, author, speaker, and developer with over 15 years of tech experience, explained the choices you can/should consider in an accessible visual presentation using text, such as font, color, contrast, size, column ...
In this presentation, Karl Groves, Founder & President of Tenon.io, provided an examination of the distance between fantasy and reality in the case of accessibility overlays. He discussed his research into website accessibility overlays and their ...
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During the WordPress Accessibility Meetup on December 20th, Joyce Oshita and Chris Lane, Accessibility Engineers at VMware, explored their lived experiences in blindness and web development respectively to uncover the mystery of digital ...
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During the WordPress Accessibility Meetup on December 2nd, Meryl Evans, an accessibility and digital marketing consultant, speaker, and writer, discussed the importance of captions and how to ensure yours follow best practices. Thanks to Our ...
During the WordPress Accessibility Meetup on November 15th, Phil Webster, a Senior WordPress Developer at Delicious Brains, discussed the steps to build a custom plugin for a client site that has accessibility top of mind. Topics included design ...
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During the WordPress Accessibility Meetup on November 4th, Glen Walker, Principal Accessibility Architect at TIAA, provided a detailed walk-through of key settings for the popular, open-source screen reader for Windows, NVDA. To get started with ...
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As part of our commitment to giving back and sharing knowledge, we have partnered with the WordPress Foundation’s community team to run an official WordPress Meetup centered around building more accessible websites with WordPress. This post has a ...
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