Equalize Digital

08/31/2026

After a year-long effort to improve WordPress accessibility documentation, the Accessibility Team has centralized scattered and outdated resources into the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base.

The new resource brings together guidance on accessibility standards and best practices, testing, accessibility-ready themes, WordPress accessibility, and getting started with WCAG. Work is continuing to review and expand the content, with plans to eventually bring relevant documentation back to WordPress.org through a dedicated accessibility section on the developer site.



https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/2026/08/06/one-year-of-working-on-documentation-about-accessibility-for-wordpress/

Last year we centralized, reviewed and updated documentation, creating The WP Accessibility Knowledge Base. The goal is for WordPress community to have consistant, easy to find, reliable, and up-to…

08/31/2026

Does updating your organization’s board meeting page mean manually adding table rows, fixing formatting, and moving links around?

BoardScribe simplifies the process. Create a structured meeting record in WordPress, add the meeting date and agenda, then upload the minutes when they become available. BoardScribe organizes everything into accessible, easy-to-navigate tables for you.

Spend less time maintaining meeting pages and make agendas and minutes easier for the public to find.

Learn about BoardScribe: https://equalizedigital.com/boardscribe/

Keep your meeting records organized, accessible, and easy for the public to find.

08/28/2026

WordPress 7.1 introduces 87 accessibility enhancements and bug fixes across Core and the editor, including improvements to screen reader support, keyboard navigation, focus states, labeling, high-contrast mode, and accessible tooltips. The release also adds new Tabs and Playlist blocks and improves accessibility across media, admin screens, editor components, and Visual Revisions. However, it also introduces a known accessibility regression with infinite scrolling in the Media Library, along with options for users and developers to disable it.

WordPress 7.1 continues to polish accessibility across WordPress Core and Gutenberg, advancing the goals to meet accessibility standards. In this release, high-impact changes include the new access…

08/28/2026

CSS Grid Lanes make it easy to build attractive masonry-style layouts, but they can also introduce serious keyboard navigation and focus order problems if used without care. This article explains why Grid Lanes may fail WCAG 2.4.3 by default, explores emerging CSS features like flow-tolerance and reading-flow, and offers practical guidance for developers who want to adopt the new layout technique without sacrificing accessibility.

I’m a frontend developer, consultant, accessibility auditor, blogger, teacher, and book author from Austria.

08/27/2026

🎉 Meet BoardScribe, our newest WordPress plugin for organizations that publish board meeting agendas and minutes.

BoardScribe helps you manage each meeting as a structured record in WordPress and display your records in organized, accessible tables. Add the meeting information once, and BoardScribe handles the display, so your staff can spend less time manually updating tables.

With BoardScribe, you can:

✅ Publish upcoming and past meetings
✅ Make agendas and minutes easier to find
✅ Add meeting listings with a block or shortcode
✅ Provide properly structured tables, descriptive links, accessible pagination, keyboard support, and responsive layouts

Keep your board records organized, accessible, and easy for the public to find.

Learn more about BoardScribe: https://equalizedigital.com/boardscribe/

Keep your meeting records organized, accessible, and easy for the public to find.

08/27/2026

We’re going live in 30 minutes!

Join Steve Jones, CTO, and William Patton, Senior Plugin Developer, while they break down new Accessibility Checker permissions and what's coming next!

Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at Accessibility Checker’s lat...

08/27/2026

🎉 New in Accessibility Checker: Permissions: Controlling Who Can Do What

Read more about the new settings added in last week's Accessibility Checker release, which allow you to control who can view the Issues Explorer, view Audit History reports, dismiss issues, and more.

How to configure permissions in Accessibility Checker by WordPress user role. Control access to Issues Explorer, dismissing issues, and more.

08/26/2026

The 2026 Disability Index Report reveals an important gap between offering accessible tools and building accessibility into how an organization operates. This article highlights five lessons from the data, including why procurement, accountability, dedicated resources, and accessibility throughout design and development are essential for moving from individual accommodations to sustainable accessibility maturity.

The 2026 Disability Index Report reveals an interesting paradox: companies are making strong progress in supporting employees with disabilities, but accessibility becomes much less mature when we look at governance, procurement and customer-facing digital experiences.

08/26/2026

Emails are an important part of the user experience, but they are often overlooked during accessibility testing.

On Tuesday, September 15 at 10 AM Central, Maria Maldonado will discuss how to make automated transactional and marketing emails from WordPress websites more accessible.

08/25/2026

The W3C has published WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0, an updated framework for conducting consistent, structured accessibility evaluations of websites, apps, documents, and other digital products. Rather than changing WCAG itself, the methodology provides a step-by-step process for defining evaluation scope, selecting representative samples, testing accessibility, and reporting findings, helping organizations produce more reliable and comparable accessibility assessments.

This document describes a methodology with a step-by-step process to evaluate how well digital products conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.