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Special guests Joe Dolson, WordPress core committer and accessibility consultant, and Anne McCarthy, Architecture and Open Source Director at Automattic, join Amber and Steve to talk through the vision behind Accessibility Lab, a new canonical accessibility plugin concept for WordPress core.
This episode is a recording of an August 2026 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. In this session, Tanveer Khan explored critical accessibility problems that automated tools often miss, including keyboard navigation issues, focus management problems, screen reader usability challenges, dynamic content announcements, and interaction patterns that require human judgment and manual testing.. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% free and virtual community resource that take place via Zoom webinars twice a month.
In this episode, we take a deep dive into a claim that gets repeated surprisingly often: Accessible websites have better performance. We look at what recent research says about accessibility and website performance, why the connection feels so intuitive, where accessibility improvements really can improve page speed, and why correlation between the two does not necessarily mean causation. We also flip the question around and discuss how poor website performance can itself create accessibility barriers, particularly for people on slower connections or using assistive technology.
This episode is a recording of an August 2026 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. In this presentation, Jesse Loesberg will give you an inside look at how the UC Berkeley Library built and implemented a digital accessibility program following a Title II ADA lawsuit and a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% free and virtual community resource that take place via Zoom webinars twice a month.
In this episode of Accessibility Craft, Chris is joined by DevOps engineer and accessibility consultant Alex Stine, along with returning guest and Equalize Digital team member William, for a wide-ranging conversation about AI, accessibility, screen readers, coding agents, and the growing tension between speed and reliability. Alex shares firsthand examples of using AI to make inaccessible PDFs, charts, weather data, and other visual information more usable in his own day-to-day, while the group digs into the accessibility problems that still exist in many AI interfaces.
This episode is a recording of a July 2026 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. In this practical session, veteran #WPA11yMeetup presenter Samantha Merrett worked through how to remediate a PDF step by step. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of PDF accessibility and the confidence to start improving your own documents.
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Accessibility Craft is hosted Amber Hinds, Chris Hinds, and Steve Jones, the owners of Equalize Digital, a Certified B Corporation specializing in WordPress Accessibility and makers of the Accessibility Checker plugin.
