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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,…
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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 firm against dozens of small sites with boilerplate complaints and a settlement demand attached. Senate Bill 907, the “Acts Against Abusive Website Access” law, lets…
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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 for most WordPress site owners, contrast is an afterthought: you pick colors that look good on your screen, launch the site, and move on. The…
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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 wake up to discover your “accessible” theme no longer carries that designation. Here’s what changed, who’s affected, and what you should do before the deadline…
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The FTC Is Targeting Accessibility Overlay Providers: What WordPress Site Owners Need to Know
For years, accessibility overlay companies marketed their products with a simple promise: install our widget, and your website is compliant. Federal regulators are now pushing back. Reports indicate the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with a prominent accessibility overlay provider over misleading marketing claims — a development that should cause every WordPress site owner…
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Video Accessibility for WordPress: Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Descriptions Explained
If your WordPress site includes video content — product demos, tutorials, testimonials, or explainer videos — there’s a good chance you’re unintentionally excluding a significant portion of your audience. Videos without captions, transcripts, or audio descriptions fail users who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or have cognitive disabilities. And increasingly, they also expose site…
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The WebAIM Million 2026 Report: Web Accessibility Is Getting Worse — What WordPress Site Owners Need to Know
Every year, WebAIM analyzes the top one million home pages on the web and scores them against WCAG 2 accessibility standards. This year’s results should alarm anyone who runs a website: accessibility is getting worse, not better. After six consecutive years of modest improvement, the 2026 WebAIM Million report found that errors are up, failures…