Equalize Digital
Website Accessibility Consulting, Training, and Development
In this meetup, Courtney Robertson shared a practical case study of running Equalize Digital’s Accessibility Checker Pro across her long-running WordPress site (including a large archive of older posts), then feeding those scan results into Claude ...
How Equalize Digital partnered with WooCommerce to identify and remediate accessibility barriers, document WCAG 2.2 conformance, and make accessibility information more transparent in the WooCommerce Marketplace. Project Background About ...
Generative AI tools are flooded with promises of automated accessibility shortcuts, but fully automated, "hands-off" alt text often fails blind and low-vision users by missing context or introducing inaccuracies. In this presentation, Deneb ...
In this episode of our Accessibility Checker Changelog livestream, William and I walked through a collection of smaller updates that improve how you find, review, and resolve accessibility issues. We’ve added page rescans directly to Issues ...
Continue Reading about Changelog 017: Issues Explorer Rescans and Better Builder Support
Emails are an important part of the user experience, but they are often overlooked during accessibility testing. Transactional emails from online shops, membership sites, contact forms, account notifications, and newsletters must be accessible so ...
Continue Reading about Email Accessibility in WordPress: Maria Maldonado
This post is part of a series where we explain Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), an internationally recognized standard for measuring website accessibility. For more posts in this series, visit our Web Accessibility WCAG 2 Knowledge ...
Continue Reading about Understanding WCAG 1.3.4 Orientation in WordPress
You can’t learn WCAG in an hour, but you can learn how to learn WCAG in an hour. WCAG 2.x is important because it is the standard for website accessibility (other standards like Section 508 and EN 301 549 incorporate WCAG), but it is technical, ...
As Accessibility Checker has grown, so have the ways teams use it. Some WordPress users need to review accessibility reports, others need to dismiss issues or run scans, and some should only have access to a specific feature. Our latest updates ...
Continue Reading about Changelog 016: Who Can Do What? Accessibility Checker Permissions
We're excited to announce that BoardScribe, our WordPress plugin for displaying board meeting minutes and agendas, is now available for free on WordPress.org! About BoardScribe How it came to be BoardScribe was built to address UI and ...
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Automated accessibility testing tools have become essential parts of modern development workflows. While these tools are valuable for quickly identifying common accessibility issues, they only detect a portion of real-world accessibility ...
Continue Reading about Accessibility Testing: What Automated Tools Will NEVER Catch: Tanveer Khan
This post is part of a series where we explain Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), an internationally recognized standard for measuring website accessibility. For more posts in this series, visit our Web Accessibility WCAG 2 Knowledge ...
Continue Reading about Understanding WCAG 1.3.3 Sensory Characteristics in WordPress
At the University of California, Berkeley Library, digital accessibility has become an essential part of providing equitable access to information and services. In this presentation, Jesse Loesberg gave us an inside look at how the library built ...
Continue Reading about Creating a Digital Accessibility Program in Higher Education: Jesse Loesberg
We are excited to introduce BoardScribe, a new WordPress plugin we have been developing to help organizations publish accessible, searchable board meeting minutes and agendas. At the time of our livestream, the free version of BoardScribe was ...
PDFs are among the most common and misunderstood document formats when it comes to accessibility. In this practical session, Samantha worked through how to remediate a PDF step by step. The session focused on what good looks like, common pitfalls ...
Help Build Software That Makes the Web More Accessible Equalize Digital is on a mission to make the web more accessible. Our software helps organizations identify and fix accessibility issues before they become barriers for real people. Our ...
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This post is part of a series where we explain Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), an internationally recognized standard for measuring website accessibility. For more posts in this series, visit our Web Accessibility WCAG 2 Knowledge ...
Continue Reading about Understanding WCAG 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence in WordPress
We’re excited to announce the latest major update to Accessibility Checker Pro, version 2.0, along with a companion update to Accessibility Checker Free, version 1.44.1. Both updates are available now. This release represents the culmination of ...
Continue Reading about Accessibility Checker Pro 2.0: The Issues Explorer is Here!
With Accessibility Checker 2.0, we’re introducing Issues Explorer. A faster, more unified way to manage accessibility issues across your entire WordPress site. Available in Accessibility Checker Pro 2.0 (with Accessibility Checker Free 1.44.1 or ...
Continue Reading about Changelog 014: Meet Issues Explorer: Find and Fix Faster
In this WordPress Accessibility Meetup presentation, Emilio Dominguez introduces attendees to the fundamentals of getting set up to build custom Gutenberg blocks. Designed for beginners, the session provides a practical overview of the tools, ...
Continue Reading about Getting Set Up to Build Your First Gutenberg Block: Emilio Dominguez
Accessibility is not just about compliance, and this session shows why it’s one of the most overlooked growth opportunities for agencies. In this session, Chris Hinds, COO at Equalize Digital, shares a practical, agency-focused approach to ...
Continue Reading about How Agencies Can Turn Their Accessibility Backlog Into Profit: Chris Hinds
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