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Accessibility Insights & Updates
Practical tips, industry news, and product updates from the LEWCA team.
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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…
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W3C Is Studying How AI Is Changing Web Accessibility: What It Means for Your WordPress Site
The W3C’s Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group has published a new Editor’s Draft tackling a question a lot of WordPress site owners are already living with: what happens to web…
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ARIA Attributes Explained: When to Use Them (and When Not To)
ARIA has a reputation problem. Developers hear “accessibility” and reach for aria-label, role, and aria-hidden like seasoning, sprinkling them onto markup in the hope that more ARIA means more accessible.…
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DOJ Says WCAG Isn’t the Official ADA Standard: What That Actually Means for Your WordPress Site
In February 2026, the Department of Justice quietly dropped a footnote that sent a ripple through the accessibility legal world: in a filing opposing a class action settlement, DOJ stated…
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Skip Links: The Simple Feature That Makes a Big Difference
Tab through your homepage right now, before reading another word. Count how many times you have to press Tab before you reach your main content. If the answer is “more…
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Washington’s July 1 Deadline Just Passed: What the WCAG 2.2 AA Mandate Means Even If You’re Not a State Agency
On July 1, 2026, Washington became one of the first states to impose a hard WCAG 2.2 Level AA deadline on its own executive branch agencies — and on the…
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Missouri Just Passed a Law Targeting “Abusive” Accessibility Lawsuits — Here’s What It Actually Means for Your WordPress Site
On August 28, 2026, Missouri becomes the first state to give businesses a legal weapon against “drive-by” website accessibility lawsuits — the kind filed by a single plaintiff or law…
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Understanding Color Contrast: The WCAG Requirements WordPress Site Owners Can’t Ignore
Color contrast failures are the single most common WCAG violation on the web — accounting for more than 80% of automatically detectable accessibility errors across the top million websites. Yet…
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WordPress Just Raised the Bar on Accessibility-Ready Themes: What the June 30 Deadline Means for Your Site
Tomorrow — June 30, 2026 — WordPress is pulling the accessibility-ready tag from themes that haven’t met its updated requirements. If your site runs one of those themes, you may…