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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 the standard that has confused people since the project started: how conformance actually gets measured. If you run a WordPress site and you’ve been half-following…
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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 because “it looked right” in the visual editor. It’s one of the most common accessibility mistakes on the web, and it’s also one of the…
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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 on WordPress sites can be fixed this afternoon, without touching a line of PHP. Here are five that consistently show up in scans and that…
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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 said, had “overstepped its authority, usefulness, and charter.” The comment came in response to a routine request from longtime core contributor Joe Dolson to extend…
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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 accessibility lawsuits the firm has ever tracked, putting the full-year total on pace to blow past 6,000 filings. If that holds, 2026 will be the…
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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 accessibility when AI is writing the alt text, generating the layout, and even claiming to fix the code? The document, titled “Accessibility of Machine Learning…
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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. It doesn’t. The first rule of ARIA — literally written into the W3C spec — is: don’t use ARIA if a native HTML element already…
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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 that it “does not endorse WCAG as the appropriate or necessary standard” for auxiliary aids and services under Title III of the ADA. Within days,…
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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 than one,” you’ve just experienced what keyboard and screen reader users deal with on every single page load — and there’s a decades-old, five-minute fix…
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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 vendors who build and maintain sites for them. If you build, host, or maintain WordPress sites for clients who touch government contracts in any state,…