He gives thanks to all the champions in the a11y space and for everyone just becoming aware of its importance. He thinks accessibility is one of the most important goals of technology, but also one of the hardest to get developers and stakeholders to care about.

He also maintains the Accessible Minimalism theme for Hugo and is in the process of porting that to WordPress. Leon Stafford, who sponsored the live captions and ASL interpretation for this event, is a developer at Strattic and creator of WP2Static. Watch the recording of the meetup and read our recap blog post if you want to learn more about how to configure NVDA for testing websites. If you want to get started with screen reader testing, NVDA is available for free download. About the Topicĭuring the WordPress Accessibility Meetup on November 4th, Glen Walker, Principal Accessibility Architect at TIAA, provided a detailed walk-through of key settings for popular, open source screen reader for Windows, NVDA.

This post has a recap of our Meetup that took place on Thursday, November 4, 2021, and a video recording of the presentation.

As part of our commitment to giving back and sharing knowledge, we have partnered with the WordPress Foundation’s community team to run an official WordPress Meetup centered around building more accessible websites with WordPress.

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