WooCommerce 10.0 is scheduled for release on July 7th. There are a number of updates and features. A big on is that WooCommerce 10.0, when used with a core WordPress or accessibility-ready theme, will be fully conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA and substantially conformant with level AAA.

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 15), the team from Equalize Digital ran a contribution challenge. Lots of people contributed in all sorts of different ways. Here’s the recap.

When using Flexbox or Grid you can move elements so that the tab order and visual display don’t match. A new CSS feature, Reading Flow, ships in chrome 137 to address this.

Captions are important on videos but can be time consuming to edit if the captioning software has a lot of errors that have to be corrected. In this video Gen Herres provides a bunch of tips to help in making better videos that are easier to caption.

Not a change that is going to happen immediately, but it is interesting to see the direction that Accessibility standards are taking.

This article in Smashing Magazine covers strategies for building a business case for Accessibility.

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.