Author: Joe Dolson

It’s official – I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Minneapolis 2013 on April 27th, talking about WordPress and Accessibility. Speaking locally is pretty rare for me, so I’m really looking forward to meeting some other local WordPress people at the event. Oh, and the learning. That, too. 🙂 The official description of my talk, in the ‘Continuing Education’ track, is: Covers a wide range of accessibility topics including but not limited to implementing best practice accessibility in theme building, discussing current […]

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After a trip to a great accessibility conference like CSUN, I inevitably end up with massive lists of great ideas for things I could work on to promote and improve accessibility. It is equally inevitable that I will forget some of these and fail to complete others — but documentation helps. Coming out of the conference, here are a few of the great ideas I’ve talked about with other people here or just had pop into my brain without warning. […]

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Whenever I update an application on my iOS or Android devices, I feel a certain nervousness about whether the learning I’ve put into the current app will go out the window. The same is true about any software: is my user interface learning going to become obsolete with this update? When it comes to major software, like moving to Windows 8, you must expect major updates. But it can be maddening to update an app you’re working with on daily […]

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The new version of WP Accessibility has just been released. Updates include the inclusion of Chris Rodriguez’s a11y toolbar, as previously announced and support for a custom WordPress administrative stylesheet. The first item, the accessibility toolbar, falls into a category of accessibility I rarely pursue: the front-end accessibility widget. I’ve written (negatively) about the concept before, in my article When More is Less. Having previously opposed accessibility widgets, I wanted to talk a little about why I think including this […]

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For my next (still forthcoming) version of my WordPress calendar plugin, My Calendar, I had a need to add custom screen options to a couple of editing screens. Now, there’s a great tutorial on adding screen options by Chris Marslender that I found very useful. It is, however, incomplete. Now, if what you want to do is add one basic control, that tutorial is definitely going to get you where you need to go. It’s simple, straightforward, and accurate. However, […]

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