Here is a great and easy to follow talk on the European Accessibility Act, the upcoming requirements, and what you can do. Note it is not totally safe for work.

While this article clarifies the differences between Classic, Hybrid, and Block themes, its real value is in the excellent summary of features available for block themes and how to access them.

If you are using Figma you may find this useful – a new WordPress component library from the WordPress Design Team.

Recordings are now available from WP accessibility day 2024, an online conference held last month. The recordings for all of the presentations are now captioned, transcribed, and include ASL interpretation. Recordings are labeled with a level of accessibility experience. There is a good mix of topics including changes in the legal requirements and a number of tutorials.

Paul Charlton takes a first look at WebStudio. This is an option that caught the attention of a lot of us. It has support for GraphQL and RestAPI and decent support for several back-end options for headless. This video is just a quick overview.

This is a cool color palette generator that shows the color shades in an alert box where you can check the color contrast for accessibility.

Davinder Singh Kainth’s newsletter is one of the best. The most recent issue just dropped.

The NY Post is a very large WordPress multi-site instance that publishes about 300 articles a day, has many authors in the admin writing at the same time, and has a large number of simultaneous visitors. This WCUS presentation gives an overview of the techniques used to scale the site. It is something of a list of things that can go wrong and types of fixes.

I’m logging in and out of WordPress websites all day long. There is a free web browser extension called WordPress Admin Switcher that makes this quicker. It is a nice quality of life enhancement that works on Chrome and Chromium based browsers.