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Accessibility Insights & Updates
Practical tips, industry news, and product updates from the LEWCA team.
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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…
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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…