Equalize Digital is proud to announce significant contributions to the recent accessibility improvements in WooCommerce core, enhancing the shopping experience for millions of people across the globe. Amber Hinds, Equalize Digital CEO, evaluated ...
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Accessible Content for Muggles: 10 Action Steps to Create Accessible Content: Paola Gonzalez
This session covered how to leverage the native features of the block editor and block-enabled plugins to enhance accessibility with minimal effort. Paola provided 10 actionable strategies to ensure your content adheres to the Web Content ...
From Complaint to Compliance: Highland Community College’s Journey to Website Accessibility
Amber Hinds, Equalize Digital CEO, recently presented at HighEdWeb's Accessibility Summit along with Elizabeth Gerber, VP of Student Development and Support Services, and Jeniece Smith, Director of Marketing and Community Relations at Highland ...
WordPress Page Builder Accessibility Comparison
No matter how diligent you are about entering your content in an accessible way, an accessible website is impossible without a solid foundation. The theme and page builder or block library you choose for your WordPress site controls a significant ...
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Which Page Builder is the Best (or Worst) at Accessibility: Amber Hinds
Building an accessible website – one that works for people with disabilities and complies with accessibility laws around the world is easiest if you start from a solid foundation. Choosing the right page builder is key if you want to build an ...
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Enhancing University Accessibility with Real-Time Web Registry Services: Gavin Colborne
Gavin Colborne explored how the world’s top universities are revolutionizing web accessibility and achieving stringent compliance standards through Real-Time Web Registry Services. This session covered the key benefits of deploying these ...
How to Code Accessible Accordions
Accordions are a common component on most websites. They make it easy to collapse longer content and allow people to skim through headings or questions quickly with minimal scrolling, then expand the ones that are relevant to them for additional ...
Shift Left with Accessibility Checklist
Request access to our Shift Left with Accessibility Checklist - a six-page checklist for building more accessible websites. This checklist is intended to help teams launch more accessible websites faster with fewer remediation items left at the ...
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Accessible Canada Act (ACA) Website Accessibility Requirements
If you work for a federal government organization or federally regulated private organization in Canada, or you build websites for these organizations, it's important to know about the Accessible Canada Act's website accessibility ...
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Lifter LMS Accessibility Audit: Raghavendra Satish Peri & Amber Hinds
Raghavendra Satish Peri, Accessibility Auditor and Specialist, and Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, performed a live accessibility audit of the Lifter LMS WordPress Plugin and provided real-time feedback. Lifter LMS can help you easily create ...
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How to Add a Pause Button to Elementor Sliders for Accessibility
Are you working to make an Elementor website accessible? This tutorial will show you how to add pause buttons to Elementor sliders and carousels that auto-play. Adding pause buttons will improve the accessibility of your Elementor slides and make ...
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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 their efforts and often try hard to make accessible spaces, but they don’t have a solid plan that will lead to accomplishing their ...
The Small Business Accessibility Playbook for WordPress
We've teamed up with our friends over at WP Buffs to create the ultimate guide to website accessibility for small businesses with WordPress websites. This 44-page ebook will guide you through ensuring your website complies with accessibility laws, ...
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No Magic Tricks: Sell Accessibility Through a Tailored Approach
In the realm of digital accessibility, there's no single solution or technique that will magically convince organizations to invest in these best practices. In order to sell accessibility effectively, advocates and salespeople will need to adopt a ...
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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, Simon discussed proven methods for building support with stakeholders for your accessibility program. We explored tools like the Site Unseen browser extension ...
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WordPress Accessibility Showcase for Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
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 ...
How to Make Your WordPress Site More Accessible With Skip Links
Does your WordPress website have skip links? This is an easy-to-add accessibility feature that can make a big difference for screen readers and keyboard-only users. Not sure how to check for skip links or add them in WordPress? Read on for our ...
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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 ...
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Mobile Accessibility: Building and Testing Accessible Mobile Sites & Native Apps: 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 ...
U.S. Justice Department Strengthens Accessibility Requirements for State and Local Government Websites
On April 8th, the United States Department of Justice published a new rule under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), strengthening the accessibility requirements for state and local government websites. The final rule, signed by ...
