In November 2022, WordPress meetup organizers expressed their disappointment in Meetup.com’s accessibility overlay, and brought this to the attention of the Community Team. All details can be found in this post. Below the latest updates from the meetup.com team: meetup.com team completed Continue reading Meetup.com Accessibility Overlay February Update
This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, February 10, 2023, 16:00 UTC. Updates from working groups: Design ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
WordPress Accessibility contributor Alex Stine – photo credit: The WP Community Collective The WP Community Collective (WPCC), a newly formed nonprofit organization dedicated to funding individual WordPress contributors and community-led initiatives, has announced its first Accessibility Fellow. Alex Stine, a Continue reading WP Community Collective Names Alex Stine as First Accessibility Fellow
These are the weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and the meeting’s agenda here. Updates from the working groups Only groups that provided updates are Continue reading Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: February 3, 2023
This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, February 3, 2023, 16:00 UTC. Updates from working groups: Design ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
These are the weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and the meeting’s agenda here. Updates from the working groups Only groups that provided updates are Continue reading Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: January 20, 2023
This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, January 20, 2023, 16:00 UTC. Updates from working groups: Design ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, January 6, 2023, 16:00 UTC. Updates from working groups: Design ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
These are the weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and the meeting’s agenda here. Updates from the working groups Only groups that provided updates are Continue reading Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: December 16, 2022
You might have been hearing more and more about it in the last few years: inclusive language. But what do people mean by it exactly? Is it a new thing? And why should you think about it when writing web Continue reading What is inclusive language?
This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, December 16, 2022, 16:00 UTC. Updates from working groups: Design ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
If you own a blog or a business, SEO is probably important to you. Then you also know that Google cares a lot about user experience. But there’s one aspect of user experience that’s often overlooked: inclusive language. But why Continue reading Inclusive language and SEO: Does inclusive language help you rank?
Earlier this year, we added a new feature to our Premium plugin, the inclusive language analysis. Now we’re excited to say that we’re bringing it to Yoast SEO Free as well. Why? Because we believe that using inclusive language is Continue reading New in Yoast SEO Free: the inclusive language analysis
Disclaimer: I am not an accessibility expert, so everything written here is the result of my experimentation and I may be wrong. A recent change in the color of the diffs from the translation memory raised an accessibility problem (thank Continue reading Color blindness in the diffs from the translation memory
As usual at this time of the year, we’re opening a call for (at least) one new Accessibility Team Rep. I’ve been Team Rep for almost two-and-a-half years, which is way longer than usual, and now it’s really time for Continue reading Call for Team Rep Nomination – December 2022
WordPress Core Committer Jb Audras, CTO of the France-based Whodunit agency, has released two new accessibility plugins in cooperation with Guillaume Turpin, another developer on the Whodunit team. These are small “micro” plugins developed to fill gaps in the block Continue reading Two New WordPress Plugins Improve Block Editor Accessibility and WCAG Compliance
This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, December 2, 2022, 16:00 UTC. Updates from working groups: Design ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
Meetup.com has removed its accessibility overlay, a recent addition to the company’s website that raised concerns with the WordPress community and the broader community of accessibility professionals. The overly was powered by EqualWeb, a product which claims to provide automated compliance Continue reading Meetup.com Removes Accessibility Overlay In Response to WordPress Community’s Concerns
This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, November 18, 2022, 16:00 UTC. Updates from working groups: Design ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
This post seeks to define an accessible set of dark theme colors to be used in content creation. Please comment with your thoughts by Friday 18 November 2022. Sometimes during an online workshop or recorded tutorial on the Site Editor, Continue reading Choosing accessible/contrasting dark theme colors for online workshops and tutorial videos