Equalize Digital Web Accessibility Meetup

Courtney Robertson will share a practical case study of running Equalize Digital’s Accessibility Checker Pro across her long-running WordPress site (including a large archive of older posts), then feeding those scan results into Claude Code to automate fixes. Examples include converting YouTube embeds to AblePlayer with VTT transcripts, resolving aria-hidden issues on emojis and UI elements, and other content-level remediation.

We’ll examine concrete before-and-after results: what the AI handled accurately and efficiently, where it made incorrect assumptions or introduced new problems that required human review, and practical takeaways for combining automated accessibility tools with AI in day-to-day WordPress workflows.

You will learn how to effectively combine Equalize Digital’s Accessibility Checker Pro scan results with Claude AI (Claude Code) for large-scale accessibility remediation on a real WordPress site.

You will leave with practical insights into:

• Which types of issues (content, embeds, ARIA, etc.) AI can reliably fix versus those that still require human judgment and testing
• A repeatable workflow for feeding automated accessibility reports into AI tools and reviewing the output
• Common pitfalls and success patterns when using AI for accessibility work on older content archives
• Clear takeaways they can apply immediately to their own sites or client projects to speed up remediation while maintaining quality

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In this practical webinar, Equalize Digital CEO Amber Hinds and COO Chris Hinds will share strategies public sector organizations can use to move their WordPress websites toward accessibility conformance while working within real-world constraints like limited budgets, small teams, legacy code, and competing priorities.

Drawing on years of experience auditing and remediating public sector websites and helping organizations build sustainable accessibility practices, Amber and Chris will show you how to move from reactive fixes toward a proactive, practical program that emphasizes continuous improvement.

Whether you’re already well underway with meeting your Title II obligations, or just staring at your deadline wondering where to even begin, you’ll leave with the building blocks to create an accessibility strategy that fosters consistent, measurable progress.

Cam has noticed that sometimes organizational leaders can be quick to adopt WCAG 2.2 AA as an internal standard or policy; however, they may do so without really understanding the standard. In particular, they might not realize some important things that WCAG requires and places limitations around.

In this session, Cam will draw attention to some requirements that are too frequently overlooked, both to help aspiring accessibility specialists better understand WCAG as well as to help leaders better plan for what will be required. We’ll look at the need for podcast transcripts, accurate captions, and audio descriptions (including traditional, extended, and integrated descriptions), and since it’s the WordPress accessibility meetup group, we’ll look at how the Able Player plugin can help site owners manage these concerns.

We’ll look at 1.4.5 Images of Text and its implications, and we’ll explore other success criteria that have important implications for common design choices (such as carousels). WCAG 2.2 AA is absolutely achievable, but it does require unlearning some of the ableism that permeates the web.

After the presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Describe requirements under WCAG Guideline 1.2 Time-based Media and plan accordingly.
2. Explain WCAG 1.4.5 Images of Text and its higher-level implications for organizations.
3. Identify other WCAG 2.2 AA requirements with implications for common design choices (such as carousels).

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A lot has changed in Accessibility Checker Pro over the past year. We’ve spent that time rebuilding the plugin around one goal:
Helping you find and fix accessibility issues faster, without pulling you out of WordPress.

The redesigned Accessibility Checker helps you spot problems, prioritize your next steps, and track your progress faster, while making issues easier to understand and action.

Join us for a deep dive into what’s changed and how Accessibility Checker Pro 2.0 can make your accessibility work easier. This is a great webinar to drop into, whether you’re considering using Accessibility Checker for the first time, are a long-time customer, or you’ve been away for awhile and are curious to see how the software has improved.

We’ll explore how to:

• Find what needs your attention most with Pro 2.0’s Issues Explorer, including powerful filters, grouping, and bulk actions.
• Review issues while you edit with the new Block Editor sidebar.
• See exactly where problems appear when using a front-end builder, using the redesigned Front-End Highlighter and its built-in explanations and supported fixes.
• Track your progress with weekly accessibility email reports, and get instant feedback on fixes as you deploy them with our new issue-specific re-scan feature.
• Save time across websites by importing and exporting settings and fix configurations in Pro, great for large institutions or agencies.

Come see what changed over the last year, and leave with practical ways to make accessibility part of your publishing and maintenance routine using Accessibility Checker Pro.