Equalize Digital

10/14/2026

Your accessibility work has to fit into a real organization—with a budget, a small team, existing technology, and plenty of competing priorities.

How do you keep moving forward?

In our upcoming webinar, Equalize Digital CEO Amber Hinds and COO Chris Hinds will share practical strategies public sector organizations can use to move their WordPress websites toward accessibility conformance.

Their approach draws on years of helping organizations audit websites, remediate barriers, and build sustainable accessibility practices.

Join us for Progress, Not Panic: A Practical Approach to Your Title II Deadline.

📅 Thursday, October 29 at Noon US Central

Register now! https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8817903434300/WN_zMlW8bu0Ru-6NdTXei2Q6g

10/13/2026

An AI-generated accessibility fix still needs review.

Join Courtney Robertson at our next WordPress Accessibility Meetup for an honest look at using Claude Code with Equalize Digital’s Accessibility Checker Pro.

Courtney will walk through before-and-after results from her own WordPress site: what AI handled accurately and efficiently, where it made incorrect assumptions, and which changes introduced new problems.

Explore where automation can help with content, embeds, and ARIA—and where human judgment and testing remain essential.

📅 Tuesday, October 20
🕙 10 AM US Central

Bring your curiosity about AI and accessibility. Leave with practical lessons from a real remediation project.

Register now!

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3017875858485/WN_2z0ZEUBhT2uCp5QXFrRf0w

10/12/2026

Podcasts, videos, captions, audio descriptions: does your accessibility plan account for all of them?

In this meetup, Cam Coulter will explore WCAG’s time-based media requirements, including podcast transcripts, accurate captions, and traditional, extended, and integrated audio descriptions.

You’ll also learn how the Able Player plugin can help WordPress site owners manage these needs.

Join us for I Didn't Realize WCAG Meant That! and get a clearer picture of what accessible media requires.

📅 Thursday, November 5, at 10 AM US Central

Save your spot! https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2217857664581/WN_KDGTwNBQSxaMKLRjm_5zOw

10/07/2026

Your organization adopted WCAG 2.2 AA. Does your team understand what that commitment requires?

Join Cam Coulter at WordPress Accessibility Meetup for I Didn't Realize WCAG Meant That!

Explore frequently overlooked requirements and what they mean for your content, design decisions, and accessibility planning. From podcast transcripts to images of text and carousels, this session will help accessibility specialists and organizational leaders turn a standard into practical action.

📅 Thursday, November 5, at 10 AM US Central

Register now! https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2217857664581/WN_KDGTwNBQSxaMKLRjm_5zOw

10/07/2026

Find the latest meetup video, recap, and transcript for: Ethical AI & Benevolent Friction: Rethinking Alternative Text in WordPress: Deneb Pulsipher.

Last Thursday, Deneb Pulsipher looked at how we can design user interfaces that use benevolent friction within Gutenberg, Elementor, and the WordPress Media Library to make it completely frictionless for site administrators to write or edit alt text, while making it gently difficult to publish empty image descriptions. Deneb used 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.

Thank you, Kinsta and Accessibility Checker, for sponsoring this meetup.

Improve alternative text in WordPress with ethical AI, page context, and human review for more accessible images.

10/07/2026

Feeling overwhelmed by your Title II deadline? Start with a practical plan.

On October 29, Amber Hinds and Chris Hinds will share ways public sector teams can make progress on WordPress accessibility while working within real-world constraints.

Whether you’re already underway or wondering where to begin, join us for Progress, Not Panic: A Practical Approach to Your Title II Deadline.

Thursday, October 29 at Noon US Central

Save your spot! https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8817903434300/WN_zMlW8bu0Ru-6NdTXei2Q6g

10/06/2026

Accessibility mistakes can be hard to spot because everything may appear to work perfectly for the people building the product.

In this article, Craig uses the Dunning-Kruger effect to explore how developers and organizations can overestimate their accessibility maturity, rely too heavily on automated tools, and gradually build better judgment through testing, feedback, and experience. Read the full article for a thoughtful look at how accessibility knowledge evolves over time.

Why your confidence in accessibility could be a sign of how little you know

10/06/2026

The French authorized translations of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) have been updated. These translations followed the W3C authorized translations process.

The French authorized translations of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are updated:

10/05/2026

The HTML headers attribute is supposed to help screen readers understand complex table relationships, but real-world support remains inconsistent.

In this article, Adrian tests the latest browser and screen reader combinations and finds that mobile support is especially weak, while desktop tools often handle spanning headers just as well without the attribute.

Read the full article for detailed test results and practical guidance on building more reliable accessible tables.

This post only covers the headers attribute in HTML tables (ARIA has no headers equivalent). My 2022 post Accessible Cart Tables? showed headers attribute support was poor. In my 2023 post Avoid Spanning Table Headers I didn’t use headers because I knew support was poor. For this post I merged…

10/05/2026

How does WCAG decide which accessibility requirements belong at A, AA, or AAA?

In this article, Alastair explains the consensus process behind assigning levels, including how the working group balances user needs, feasibility, industry impact, and regulatory adoption.

Read the full article for a behind-the-scenes look at why WCAG conformance levels are shaped by more than accessibility impact alone.

Accessibilty and user-experience thoughts.