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.

The Easy A11y Guide YouTube channel has lots of good videos with information on how to apply accessibility best practices. For example, here is an easy to follow video showing the wrong way and the correct way to hide content on a page.

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.

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.