Accessibility Craft

A Practical Approach to Your Title II Deadline with Amber Hinds and Chris Hinds

This episode is a recording of an October 2026 accessibility webinar, brought to you by Equalize Digital. Amber Hinds, CEO, and Chris Hinds, COO of Equalize Digital, share a practical five-step approach to preparing for ADA Title II web accessibility deadlines. Learn how to inventory websites and documents, prioritize barriers, prevent new problems, plan remediation around your team's capacity and budget, and measure meaningful progress. The webinar closes with a six-week action plan and audienc

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41 Reports Later, WooCommerce Talks Accessibility | Thomson & Scott Noughty Non Alcoholic Sparkling Chardonnay

What does it take to make 41 WooCommerce extensions more accessible? James Kemp, Core Product Manager at WooCommerce, joins Amber Hinds and Steve Jones to discuss the work behind 41 Accessibility Conformance Reports, from getting buy-in and prioritizing plugins to coordinating fixes across development teams. They explore how the European Accessibility Act helped motivate the project, why older plugins can hide unexpected issues, and how public reports help merchants make informed choices. First

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Using Accessibility Checker Pro + Claude AI to Remediate a Large WordPress Site with Courtney Robertson

This episode is a recording of an October 2026 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. 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 Code to automate fixes. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% free and virtual community resource that take place via Zoom webinars

Practical Accessibility Magic: Spells, Curses, and False Promises | Blue Owl Brewing "Lime in the Coconut" Milkshake Sour DIPA

Is there such a thing as practical accessibility magic? Inspired by October, Practical Magic, and a “Lime in the Coconut” Milkshake Sour DIPA from Blue Owl Brewing, Amber, Chris, and Steve open their "spellbooks" and dive in... They’re looking for the changes that can make a real difference to a website's accessibility conformance. Speaking of conformance levels, the conversation begins with the latest WCAG 3 draft. What might replace the familiar A, AA, and AAA conformance levels? How could rep

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Ethical AI & “Benevolent Friction” - Rethinking Alternative Text in WordPress with Deneb Pulsipher

This episode is a recording of an October 2026 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. In this presentation, Deneb Pulsipher uses a real-world case study—the open-source plugin Polly Alt—to explore how we can ethically leverage generative AI as an accessibility aid by intentionally keeping a human in the loop. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% free and virtual community resource that takes place via Zoom webinars twice a month. For show notes and a full trans

Website Redesign Phase 1: Accessibility in Figma | Spindrift Blood Orange Black Tea

What does it actually take to design a modern, accessible website from the ground up? In this episode of Accessibility Craft, we’re pulling back the curtain on the Equalize Digital website redesign. We talk about how we selected a design partner, why our original design budget nearly doubled, and how accessibility requirements were built into the process before the first Figma designs ever arrived. We also dig into accessibility QA during the design phase, and Steve shares some early thoughts on

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Email Accessibility in WordPress with Maria Maldonado

This episode is a recording of a September 2026 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. In this presentation, Maria Maldonado discussed email accessibility and looked at practical examples, including table-based email layouts, links, headings, images, color contrast, readable content structure, and testing workflows. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% free and virtual community resource that take place via Zoom webinars twice a month. For show notes and a full

WP Accessibility Day 2026 Preview with Guest Ryan Bracey | Fast Friends Beer Co Vienna Style Lager

WordPress Accessibility Day 2026 is coming October 7–8, and this episode takes you behind the scenes of how its speakers, sessions, and keynote came together. Ryan Bracey, Director of Web Development and User Experience at Second Melody and Speaker Team Lead for WordPress Accessibility Day, joins Amber and Chris to talk about the hidden work that goes into reviewing 88 speaker submissions, anonymizing proposals to reduce bias, building a diverse schedule, and balancing technical, business, des

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How to Learn WCAG with Cam Coulter

This episode is a recording of a September 2026 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. In this presentation, Cam will provide foundational context about WCAG and explain how to slowly and seriously learn WCAG like a professional. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% free and virtual community resource that take place via Zoom webinars twice a month. For show notes and a full transcript, go to AccessibilityCraft.com/181.

All About Accessibility Lab with Joe and Anne | Save the World Brewing TX Cerveza

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. We learn what Accessibility Lab is, what it is not, and try to understand what the practical use case is in the dizzying context of one of the world's largest open source projects. The conversation gets into

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What Automated Accessibility Tools Will Never Catch with Tanveer Khan

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 resourc

Accessible = Faster? What the Research Actually Says | Dragon’s Milk Bourbon Barrel Stout

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 ba

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Creating a Digital Accessibility Program in Higher Education with Jesse Loesberg

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. For show notes a

AI, Screen Readers, and the Real User Experience | Fentimans Sparking Victorian Lemonade

How is AI actually changing the way people use assistive technology, and what happens when AI lets developers move faster than they can realistically review their own work? 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.

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A Practical PDF Remediation Demo with Samantha Merrett

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. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% free and virtual community resource that take place via Zoom webinars twice a month. For show not

Beyond the Scan: 7 Manual Accessibility Tests to do Right Now | Meridian Hive Peach Ginger Wine Cocktail

Automated accessibility testing is important, but it cannot tell you whether real people can successfully use your website. In this episode of Accessibility Craft, Amber, Chris, and Steve explain how manual accessibility testing fills the gaps left by automated tools and share practical tests that anyone can begin performing today. The conversation covers keyboard navigation, browser zoom, screen reader testing, dynamic components, focus management, heading structure, and the accessibility probl

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Throwback: Six Levels of Accessibility Maturity with Nick Croft

This episode is a throwback recording of a 2024 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. During this session, senior developer and accessibility advocate Nick Croft explored what he called the six stages of the accessibility journey. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% free and virtual community resource that take place via Zoom webinars twice a month. For show notes and a full transcript, go to AccessibilityCraft.com/173.

One Page, Many Problems: Accessibility in SPAs | Recess "Mood" Calming Orange Vanilla

This week on Accessibility Craft, we're taking a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of the new Issues Explorer in Accessibility Checker Pro. We discuss what it takes to build an accessible single page application (SPA), how React changes the accessibility testing process, and why focus management, live announcements, and state changes are critical to creating a great experience for keyboard and screen reader users. We also share what we learned while updating Accessibility Chec

How Agencies Can Turn Their Accessibility Backlog Into Profit with Chris Hinds

This episode is a recording of a June 2026 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. In this session, Chris Hinds, COO at Equalize Digital, shares a practical, agency-focused approach to website accessibility. From developer tools like automated scanners and linters to larger strategic decisions like rebuilds versus retainers, this session is packed with actionable ways to improve both user experience and business outcomes. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% fre

How Made Right Media Convinced Clients to Embrace True Accessibility | Spindletap Brewery Stereochemistry DIPA

In this episode of Accessibility Craft, Amber and Chris sit down with Roger Rowles of Made Right Media to talk about what it really looks like for a digital agency to level up its accessibility practices. Roger shares how his team moved from early accessibility assumptions and overlay reliance toward a more thoughtful, proactive, and client-centered approach. The conversation covers how agencies can introduce accessibility without making it feel like an upsell, how to position remediation and