Post Status Live – The Right Approach to WordPress Accessibility

The talented team from Modern Tribe joined Cory Miller for this critical discussion about accessibility in WordPress. They highlight accessibility as a non-negotiable aspect of web development and provide guidance for leaders, developers, and designers to ensure your websites are accessible to all people.

Top Takeaways:

• Why Value Accessibility? Accessibility ensures all people have access to the things we create. It can’t be an afterthought or something for the web dev team to figure out. It must drive the entire creative process and serve as an anchor to ground our teams and our work.
• Requirement vs. Challenge. Most creative projects work within a set of requirements. These don’t prohibit the creative process. Instead, they challenge us to enhance the things we build and make them better than we might have without thinking through and within these constraints.
• It’s All Around Us. We think of accessibility as a new idea, but in so many spaces, it’s the norm. We have curb cutouts and braille signage. We see this every day, so tech is catching up.
• Improving Usability. Developing through the lens of accessibility means delivering experiences that solve people’s problems and help them with tasks.
• It Takes Tools. The creative and engineering are just rails. Utilizing tools to ensure accessibility when publishing and setting up processes and guidelines will equip you to flex as requirements change. It’s necessary for your organization to resource accessibility for it to be done effectively.

🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• Modern Tribe
• Eric Meyer
• MySpace

🐦 You can follow Post Status and our guests on Twitter:

• Chris Kindred (Director of Backend Development, Modern Tribe)
• Sarah Gless (Creative Director, Modern Tribe)
• Mike Klanac (Director of Business Development, Modern Tribe)
• Cory Miller (CEO, Post Status)
• Olivia Bisset (Intern, Post Status)

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