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Accessibility Insights & Updates
Practical tips, industry news, and product updates from the LEWCA team.
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WAI-ARIA Landmarks: Giving Your WordPress Pages Meaningful Structure
Sighted visitors scan a page in a second: header at the top, navigation along the side, content in the middle, footer at the bottom. Screen reader users can’t glance at…
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How to Audit Your WordPress Site for Accessibility Issues
Most WordPress site owners know they should care about accessibility, but few know where to start. Is the site fine? Is it a mess? Without an audit, you’re guessing. The…
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Mobile Accessibility: Touch Targets, Zoom, and Responsive Design
More than half of web traffic now comes from phones, and for many people with disabilities the phone is the primary way they get online. Yet mobile accessibility is where…
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How to Create an Accessibility Statement for Your WordPress Site
Ask ten WordPress site owners whether their site has an accessibility statement and most will say no, or that they are not sure what one is. Yet a statement is…
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The 30% Problem: What the USWDS AI Takeover Teaches Us About Automated Accessibility Testing
When the team that now runs the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) announced it would “automate as much accessibility testing as possible” with AI code-review tools, accessibility professionals pushed back…
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WCAG 3.0’s New Conformance Model: What the September 2026 Draft Changes (and What It Doesn’t)
On September 10, 2026, the W3C quietly published a new working draft of WCAG 3.0 — and this one is worth paying attention to, because it reworks the part of…
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Heading Hierarchy: Why Your H1-H6 Structure Matters
Open a random WordPress post and check its heading structure — chances are you’ll find an H2 skipped straight to an H4, or a page title formatted as an H3…
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5 Accessibility Fixes You Can Make in WordPress Today
Most WordPress site owners think accessibility fixes require a developer, a budget, and a multi-week project plan. Some fixes do. But a surprising number of the most common accessibility barriers…
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WordPress Sidelined Its Own Accessibility Team: What the August Shakeup Means for Your Site
On August 1, 2026, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg posted a comment on the Make WordPress Accessibility blog that landed like a grenade in the accessibility community: the Accessibility Team, he…
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UsableNet’s 2026 Midyear Report: Accessibility Lawsuits Just Hit a Record High — And Widgets Still Aren’t Stopping Them
Halfway through 2026, the numbers are in, and they’re not good. UsableNet’s 2026 Midyear Report found that the first six months of this year produced the highest volume of digital…