🔤 Accessibility from A to Z: F is for Forms
Forms are one of the most important ways users interact with a website, from contact requests to registrations and donations. Even minor accessibility issues in forms can prevent people from completing key tasks.
Using an accessible form builder helps, but accessibility also depends on how the form is configured and structured. The right tool still needs the right setup.
One WordPress Setting Can Change Everything
Building a WordPress plugin means relying on parts of WordPress that developers can’t fully control.
In this clip, Chris explains how inheriting styles and color schemes from WordPress core can create unexpected accessibility or UI issues that plugin developers didn’t even cause.
Accessibility Checker is getting a major UI update.
In this clip, Steve explains why the plugin is moving from the legacy meta box into the WordPress block editor sidebar and how the redesign makes it easier to review and fix accessibility issues while editing content.
Accessibility issues don’t just impact users with disabilities. They can also affect your website’s performance.
Join Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, for Beyond LCP: How Accessibility Failures Drive Down Your Core Web Vitals Scores at the Cloudways Cloud Bootcamp.
📅 Tuesday, March 10
⏰ 11:00 AM Central
CTO Hat vs Owner Hat: Accessibility Decisions Explained
The conversation shifts to a real challenge in accessibility work: do you wait for perfection, or launch and improve over time?
In this clip, Steve talks about balancing reputation, development reality, and the pressure of knowing people are watching every accessibility decision.
The pressure of being an accessibility expert 👀
What happens when accessibility experts get called out?
In this moment from the podcast, Amber talks about the pressure of practicing what you preach and why accountability matters when you’re teaching others about accessibility.
Liquid seltzer when there's beer and pop?
The podcast kicks off with a debate about Liquid Death, energy drinks, and whether Diet Coke deserves an official sponsorship 😄