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Website Accessibility Consulting, Training, and Development
Making a WordPress website accessible doesn't have to be super expensive or a massive undertaking. Small business owners and bloggers can quickly make their websites accessible without breaking the bank or waiting months for results. And, with ...
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Some trends are moving in the right direction, like making a dark mode and focusing on accessibility improvements. Other trends are moving in the completely opposite direction. We seem to be in an era of nostalgia and design revival — some of ...
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We all know that accessible websites are important, but many people assume that accessibility equates to static or boring. In an attempt to be "accessible," they add ARIA roles & landmarks on everything, which is counterintuitive; knowing when to ...
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This is a case study presentation from Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital and lead organizer of the meetup, on building an accessible drop-shipping WooCommerce website. In this session, Amber shared the process for building, testing, and ...
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A website's copy is often the first user interaction with a brand. In this talk, Abby covered what good copywriting is and how to write it. We discussed a look at how to make your website copy accessible from various perspectives, including reading ...
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Alex Stine, Engineer & Accessibility Consultant, and Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, performed a live accessibility audit of the Pie Calendar WordPress Plugin and provided real-time feedback. Pie Calendar lets you effortlessly turn any ...
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The menu on your site is one of its most important features, as it gives access to the rest of your site. Unfortunately, a large portion of the menus that come stock with WordPress themes fail in several ways to deliver on the promise of easy access ...
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Are you overwhelmed at the prospect of conducting accessibility audits for large websites that have numerous pages? In this talk, Natalie covered strategies for efficiently planning and conducting audits for large-scale sites, including WordPress ...
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How to use tools & procedures to significantly speed up the design process and produce accessible designs, even when the designers don’t have an accessibility background. A walk-through showing how to work with designers who have no accessibility ...
Continue Reading about Recipe for Accessibility: Limiting Ingredients for Faster Design: Gen Herres
Alex Stine, Engineer & Accessibility Consultant, and Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, performed a live accessibility audit of the AccessAlly Plugin and provided real-time feedback to the AccessAlly team. AccessAlly is a powerful WordPress ...
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eCommerce sites have a lot of user interaction and therefore a lot of potential for accessibility issues. This presentation by team members from AccessiCart, an agency that specializes in accessibility and eCommerce, will look at the accessibility of ...
Continue Reading about WooCommerce and Accessibility: Bet Hannon and Meg Miller
The flexibility of WordPress is a double-edged sword when it comes to accessibility: just as quickly as new content can be created by non-technical users, accessibility problems can be added. This presentation covers key considerations for ...
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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 ...
Continue Reading about Go Theme by GoDaddy Accessibility Audit: Alex Stine and Amber Hinds
During this presentation, Stefano Minoia explored what fluid typography is and how it works, how to make it accessible, and how to use it in the block editor in an accessible way. In 2022, with Gutenberg 13.8 and WordPress 6.1, the block editor ...
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The primary challenge faced by website owners, copywriters, designers, and virtual assistants when creating accessible content is the need to work within tight time constraints. In this presentation, Gen provides practical guidance on meeting ...
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Alex Stine and Amber Hinds demonstrated how to manually audit plugins for accessibility while providing real-time feedback to help the Paid Memberships Pro team improve their plugin. In addition to identifying areas of improvement, Alex and Amber ...
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In this presentation, Alex Stine, Engineer & Accessibility Consultant, and Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, performed a live accessibility audit of the Underrepresented in Tech website and provided real-time feedback to Underrepresented in ...
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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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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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When WordPress 5.0 was released in December of 2018, it came with a new feature: the Gutenberg editor. This new editor boasted a ton of exciting elements that were meant to increase the flexibility and improve the experience of editing content in ...
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