I released two plugin updates that were a bit painful. The first is for WP to Twitter – and has been coming for quite a while. In this release, I removed support forms and all of the promotional materials for WP Tweets Pro, which I’m no longer selling. I think that the reasons for discontinuing WP Tweets Pro are pretty well known at this point; but suffice to say I don’t trust Twitter enough to continue to develop for their […]
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Still plenty of work to do – the WebAIM Million
Every year, WebAIM conducts a study of the top 1,000,000 home pages across the web. This study is a great way to get a broad assessment of how web accessibility is changing across a wide array of popular sites. And year by year, the stats seem to be getting a bit better. But the progress is so incremental, with such small gains. And this isn’t because home pages aren’t changing. If you look at the detected errors section, you’ll see […]
Continue reading “Still plenty of work to do – the WebAIM Million” »The posts they are a changin’ – Gutenberg, Blocks, and the future of WordPress
In a recent email, I wrote this paragraph (paraphrased because it’s out of context): “Accessible development requires a high level of distrust for the tools you’re using to build a site, and an operational assumption that unless you have reviewed the output of a tool, you should assume it’s not accessible. This is a frustratingly adversarial method of interacting with software, but once you’ve worked through the process of assessing what your tools do systematically, you will have a good […]
Continue reading “The posts they are a changin’ – Gutenberg, Blocks, and the future of WordPress” »The real added costs of accessibility
For many years, I’ve seen repeated – and have myself repeated – the idea that an accessible website is not more expensive. That idea comes with a notable caveat. That caveat, to sum it up, is that it is not more accessible to build an accessible website from scratch than it is to build an inaccessible site from scratch. Building from scratch. When was the last time you built a website from scratch? What does it mean, in 2022, to […]
Continue reading “The real added costs of accessibility” »Don’t judge progress by the number of open issues
Recently, I’ve seen more than one person in the accessibility community sharing Tweets about the number of accessibility issues in the Gutenberg repository. The increase in issues over the last few years is presented to show that WordPress is not considering accessibility. Specifically, I’m referring to comments by Adrian Roselli & Dennis Lembree: https://twitter.com/aardrian/status/1474088282589962241 There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize the accessibility of Gutenberg. Progress on accessibility has been inconsistent at best. This is heavily influenced by the […]
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