Elementor has rebranded and relaunched an accessibility plugin. There is some community concern that a plugin only option is insufficient.

Congratulations to Anne-Mieke Bovelett whose project won this year’s hackathon at CloudFest. The winning project is a plugin named Visua11y that automatically converts complex visuals like info-graphics into accessible alternatives.

Figure your risk of an accessibility risk. A resource for US-based businesses.

Here is an article from the Delicious Brains team on understanding and using ARIA roles in WordPress.

Brian Coords interviews Gen Herres. They talk about new accessibility regulations, AI, and WordPress development.

Checking a website’s accessibility is import for usability and conversions. If people can’t read or use the site, they go elsewhere. In this training Gen Herres does a super fast audit and a quick audit and then compares those to a detailed page audit.

Many of these are tests that people can run with a small amount of training and find out much more information than automated tests provide.

Gen Herres shares some tips for quickly getting an idea of a sites accessibility.

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.

The HTTP Archive published a report on the state of accessibility on the web. Twenty content management systems and website platforms were ranked by accessibility based on scores from the Lighthouse Accessibility audit. WordPress is in the list, but not at the top.