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People may experience permanent disabilities, temporary disabilities, or situational disabilities—all under neurological disabilities. All of these are important to be considering when you are building a website. -Christina Workman Working as the Website Specialist for Maintainn, the WordPress support and maintenance division of WebDevStudios,...
Read More Understanding NeurodisabilitiesAs we continue to bring more and more people online across the globe, the percentage of your website visitors that depend on your forethought of accessibility increases. Meeting website accessibility standards is no longer something you can overlook. It should be top...
Read More Website Tips for Meeting Accessibility StandardsAccessibility, sometimes written in short form as a11y, is often the lowest item on a website priority list, if it even makes it on the list at all. As I’ve been learning about developing and maintaining accessible websites, I’ve noticed that many...
Read More Accessible Websites Benefit EveryoneIt has been almost two years since the initial release of Gutenberg; and although a lot of users have embraced it, there are still a few who prefer the old WordPress way of doing things. It will take a bit more time...
Read More How to Make Your Custom Block AccessibleWhy You Should Care About Accessibility An accessible website means it is properly designed and coded in such a way that all users can access the same resources regardless of abilities. Simply put, an accessible website means that all users regardless of...
Read More 5 Ways to Make Your WordPress Site More AccessibleJust over two years ago, I wrote a blog post about accessibility basics, where I introduced readers to accessibility APIs from a 30,000 foot view. Near the end, I proclaimed that WebDevStudios is “committed to building accessible websites.” Internally, an effort to make our starter...
Read More How Thinking About Accessibility Can Lead to SuccessWriting HTML is about more than simply “having stuff appear on the page.” Each element you use has a meaning and conveys information to your visitors, especially to those that use assistive technologies to help interpret that meaning for them. A majority...
Read More Accessibility of Semantics: How Writing Semantic HTML Can Help AccessibilityOh, the internet is a wondrous place – full of avenues to connect people, regardless of geography, language, or hardware. Accessibility is so broad and the usership is so diverse. When building a WordPress theme, I encourage you to think about the...
Read More Accessibility in Chrome DevToolsAs of late, I’ve been on a bit of a journey to become more adept and knowledgeable in the area of website accessibility. It’s not simply as easy as throwing a few extra alt or title tags here and there, or making...
Read More Thinking About AccessibilityEveryday I spend time working on products for our great clients, I specifically spend a great deal of it writing code and building features. But I’m not just creating new features, I’m also creating new opportunities…opportunities to break that product. Here are the questions developers need...
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