Equalize Digital
Website Accessibility Consulting, Training, and Development
Tune in as Amber audits and fixes the WP Product Talk website, a WordPress website using the Kadence theme and blocks and Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin.
Good design isn’t just about making things look nice. It’s about making your products easy to use and accessible for everyone. In this presentation, Shannon Towell, a seasoned Experience Designer, will break down the key things to watch for when building a website to ensure it’s user-friendly and inclusive. We’ll take a website, audit it, […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
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 scratch. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of the key factors that influence this choice, including the severity of accessibility barriers, the underlying technology and […]
Tune in as Amber audits and fixes the WP Product Talk website, a WordPress website using the Kadence theme and blocks and Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
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 make the internet more usable for millions of people with disabilities. Even one small fix—like adding alt text, fixing heading levels, or improving keyboard navigation—can […]
Ensuring accessibility in WordPress projects isn’t just a legal or ethical responsibility—it’s a powerful value-add for clients. But how do you effectively communicate its importance and integrate it into your sales process? Join us for a panel discussion where agency owners and freelancers will share insights on positioning accessibility as a competitive advantage, overcoming client […]
Tune in as Amber audits and fixes the WP Product Talk website, a WordPress website using the Kadence theme and blocks and Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Tune in as Amber audits and fixes the WP Product Talk website, a WordPress website using the Kadence theme and blocks and Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin.
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 applications easier to navigate and use. Join us for this beginner-friendly session, where we’ll explore what ARIA is, when to use it (and when not […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Tune in as Amber audits and fixes the WP Product Talk website, a WordPress website using the Kadence theme and blocks and Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin.
How does an annual accessibility conference grow into a national industry association with real policy influence? Join us for an inspiring and practical conversation about what it takes to scale an accessibility-focused initiative into an organization with national reach and impact. In this session, we will explore the journey of evolving from a one-time event […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
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 […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Join Catherine Sherry and Kate O’Connor from Onward Accessibility for an engaging session focused on building a more inclusive and accessibility-forward hiring process. Drawing from their extensive experience in accessibility-focused consulting and staffing, Catherine and Kate will guide participants through effective strategies for recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding individuals with disabilities. Attendees will gain practical tools, […]
Join us for a special WordPress Accessibility Meetup as Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, shares the latest findings from her annual Page Builder Accessibility Report. This session will reveal how popular WordPress page builders stack up when it comes to accessibility — which ones have improved, which continue to lag behind, and what that […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
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... Aren't they so creative and great? Nope. No they are not. Your fancy open captions are literally making billions of people sick. Think I'm exaggerating? […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Join us for live accessibility testing of cookie banner plugins with Alex Stine. Alex will be testing popular cookie consent solutions for accessibility with his screen reader and providing real-time feedback. If you need an accessible cookie banner, tune in to see which WordPress plugins provide the best starting point. These meetups take place via […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Many agencies want to do right by disabled people. They want to make their clients' websites accessible. Because, why wouldn't you? And sure, many things you can do without even notifying your client. Have accessible building blocks, implement them in designs or code when the time is there to update anyway, only the people who […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Join us for a special WordPress Accessibility Meetup featuring a Conversation between Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, and Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital. Together, they’ll reflect on how accessibility in WordPress has evolved over the past 20+ years and look ahead to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. The […]
Not sure if Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker is right for you or how to fit it into your workflow? This webinar will answer all your questions! Join Chris Hinds and Paola Gonzalez of Equalize Digital for a demo of Accessibility Checker and a discussion on how you can use it to help you (or your […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Join us for a special hands-on edition of the WordPress Accessibility Meetup! In this session, Amber Hinds will team up with Brian Coords, Developer Advocate at WooCommerce, to perform live accessibility remediation on a real WordPress website. Amber and Brian will identify common accessibility issues using both automated and manual testing tools, explain why these […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility professionals all know screen reader testing is important, but the barrier to entry is fairly high: before you can test with a screen reader, you have to know how to use a screen reader. Wrapping your mind around all those keystrokes and what they do can be difficult. In this webinar we’ll break it […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Join us for round two of live accessibility remediation with Brian Coords! In this meetup, Amber and Brian will continue improving the accessibility of Brian's podcast website, webmasters.fm. They'll identify common accessibility issues using both automated and manual testing tools, explain why these issues matter to users with disabilities, and demonstrate how to resolve them […]
Samantha Merrett will walk you through how to create digital documents that are truly accessible, sharing practical tips and hands-on guidance you can use right away. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how to meet global accessibility requirements while making your documents easier for everyone to read, navigate, and use. Learning Outcomes: Understand why […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Ever wondered what actually goes into a professional accessibility audit? Looking for tips to include in your own auditing process? In this session, Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, pulls back the curtain on the real-world process her team uses to audit web pages for accessibility. Amber will walk through how a single page is evaluated from […]
High-speed performance and digital accessibility are two sides of the same coin. Both are about removing friction for the end user. Equalize Digital is honored to be a featured partner during Cloudways Cloud Bootcamp. The event is focused on helping digital professionals understand the importance server-side optimization and frontend speed, both of which directly support […]
Most teams approach accessibility through training, audits, or late-stage QA. While these efforts are important, they don’t scale - especially as frontend codebases grow more complex and teams rely on shared components and design systems. In this talk, Niharika will reframe accessibility as a frontend architecture concern and a leadership responsibility, not just an individual […]
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
Accessibility Checker Small Business and Agency license plans include access to open office hours where you can ask questions and get help finding or fixing accessibility problems. These meetings take place via Zoom with auto-captions and require pre-registration to attend. Get the link to register for office hours on your account dashboard.
The European Accessibility Act requires a number of things beyond technical accessibility to WCAG/EN 301 549 guidelines. You’ll leave with a clear understanding of what compliance requires and how to start preparing. This session will break down who needs to comply, which standards apply today, and what’s coming next, plus what early enforcement looks like. […]