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Sunshine Photo Cart Accessibility Audit

Join us as Alex Stine, Engineer & Accessibility Consultant, and Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, perform a live accessibility audit of the Sunshine Photo Cart WordPress Plugin and provide real-time feedback. The presentation will demonstrate how to manually audit WordPress plugins for accessibility while providing real-time feedback to help the Sunshine Photo Cart team […]

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Event Series WordPress Accessibility Meetup

Demystifying European Accessibility Laws: An Engaging Overview with Anna Malmberg and Susana Pallero

Join Anna and Susi from Funka, in this session as they take you on a journey to understand the main European accessibility laws - that are often perceived as boring and complex. Gain insights into these laws (actually directives) and learn how to ensure compliance to create inclusive and enjoyable digital experiences. During the session, […]

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Mobile Accessibility: Building and Testing Accessible Mobile Sites and Native Apps with Gian Wild

Unfortunately, when developing WCAG2, the Working Group did not envision the current world where mobile is almost ubiquitous. For example, on a mobile device, there is no continual access to a keyboard (unless someone is using it as an add-on to the device – or using a Blackberry Classic.) WCAG2 requires that all content be […]

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Quick Accessibility Audits: Gen Herres

The most common question regarding accessibility is, "How bad is a given site, and what's it going to take to fix it?" Most people would like to get at least a ballpark answer without spending $1,000. This session will cover how we use a quick audit to answer these common questions and move forward on […]

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WordPress Accessibility Showcase for Global Accessibility Awareness Day

In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), join us for a conversation about how different WordPress plugins and theme developers are working to improve and promote accessibility in their products. Representatives from Accessibility Checker, CivicPress, Elementor, Gravity Forms, My Calendar, Popup Maker, and WP Accessibility will share how they are working on accessibility, what […]

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Building Empathy with Stakeholders to Drive Accessibility: Simon Miner

How can we help leaders really "get" the need for digital accessibility? In this session, we will discuss proven methods for building support with stakeholders for your accessibility program. We’ll explore tools like the Site Unseen browser extension that you can use to foster appreciation for the challenges disabled users may face on your organization's websites. We’ll […]

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Strategies for Creating Accessible Websites Using Divi Theme and Page Builder: Renee Dunn

Renee Dunn from Elevage Digital will share strategies, lessons learned, and code examples for improving the accessibility of web pages built using the Divi theme and page builder. In this presentation, we will review some of the most common accessibility challenges with Divi, including navigation, buttons, icons, animation, and video. These meetups take place via […]

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Six Levels of A11Y Maturity: Know Where You Are to Know Where You Are Going: Nick Croft

Accessibility is such a large topic that teams can be overwhelmed by the possibilities. They don’t know where to focus efforts and often try hard to make accessible spaces, but don’t have a solid plan that will lead to accomplishing their goals. This talk will break down the journey into six stages, with clear descriptions […]

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Lifter LMS Accessibility Audit: Raghavendra and Amber Hinds

Join us as Raghavendra, Accessibility Auditor and Specialist, and Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, perform a live accessibility audit of the Lifter LMS WordPress Plugin and provide real-time feedback. The presentation will demonstrate how to manually audit WordPress plugins for accessibility while providing real-time feedback to help the Lifter LMS team improve their plugin. […]

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Enhancing University Accessibility with Real-Time Web Registry Services: Gavin Colborne

Discover how the world’s top universities are revolutionizing web accessibility and achieving stringent compliance standards through Real-Time Web Registry Services. This session will cover the key benefits of deploying these services, provide a practical implementation guide, and share success stories from renowned institutions. Learn actionable strategies to elevate accessibility and inclusivity at your university. These […]

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Strategies for Creating Accessible Websites Using Divi Theme and Page Builder: Renee Dunn

Renee Dunn from Elevage Digital will share strategies, lessons learned, and code examples for improving the accessibility of web pages built using the Divi theme and page builder. In this presentation, we will review some of the most common accessibility challenges with Divi, including navigation, buttons, icons, animation, and video. These meetups take place via […]

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Learning to be Accessible, Perspective from a WordPress Product Company: Quay Morgan

Accessibility does not often get the attention and priority it deserves. Why? I certainly can't speak for anyone outside Ninja Forms, but I can speak to our journey with accessibility in the hope that sharing motivates others to take those first steps and offer takeaways that will make the experience easier for others. Join Quay […]

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Building an Accessible and Highly Usable Transportation Website: Ron Zasadzinski & Kevin Sholander

Aim for perfection and accept excellence along the way. Our mission was to redesign and rebuild the transportation website for the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, conformant with WCAG 2.2 guidelines. At CodeGeek, we wanted to take it a step further and make it not just conformant but as highly usable as possible for everyone, […]

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Managing Plugin Accessibility for the Long Term: Joe Dolson

One common and frustrating experience for users with disabilities is when software they've depended on releases an update and loses its accessibility. It's easy to imagine this is an isolated experience, but it's shockingly common. Accessibility is never something you can just do once; it needs to be improved and maintained, even through major design […]

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How to Accurately Budget for Accessibility: Chris Hinds

This presentation will cover essential accessibility products and services that should be part of every budget. Gain insight into what typical costs are for accessibility in 2024-2025, and learn how to identify if you’re being lowballed or overcharged. We’ll also show you how to quickly project accessibility investment over 12 months, by using a combination […]

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Accessibility Strategy and Goal-Setting Workshop: Amber Hinds

Join us for an interactive workshop to plan your accessibility goals and strategy for 2025. Amber will walk attendees through the process of creating an accessibility remediation roadmap, with recommendations for prioritizing fixes and creating a timeline. There will be time to create and refine your accessibility roadmap and an opportunity to share it and […]

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Navigating the Future: Using WordPress Menu Blocks That Work for Everyone: Jennifer Dust and Eli Frigoli

Since the navigation menu is typically the first and most-used point of user interaction within a website, the menu must be accessible to all users – including those navigating the site through assistive technologies. This becomes even more important as a site grows and the menu complexity increases into multi-level megamenus. However, not all megamenu […]

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We Need to Talk About Captions: Piccia Neri

Don't you love all the great AI tools available at the moment? Specifically – aren't all the captions design tools fantastic? All those options! Animations, flashing effects, typography, graphic treatments... […]

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Remediation or Rebuild? — Amber Hinds and Steve Jones

Join us for a presentation exploring the critical decision-making process behind determining whether a website can be remediated for accessibility compliance or if it needs to be completely rebuilt from […]

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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025

Join us in celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) by pledging your time to improve accessibility in WordPress. Whether you’re a developer, designer, content creator, or site owner, your skills can help […]

ARIA for Beginners: Maria Maldonado

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) is a set of attributes that improve web accessibility for people using assistive technologies. It enhances HTML by adding details to interactive elements, making web […]

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Elementor Accessibility: Angela Bowman & David Denedo

In this talk, Angela and David will dive into practical strategies for working with options in Elementor that allow you to make your site more WCAG compliant, including: Assigning proper ARIA landmarks to header, content, and footer areas Naming menus and other widgets in Elementor for correct ARIA Using Site Settings to define accessible Global […]

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