About us
Virtual meetups on making websites accessible with live captions. This meetup has been officially approved for Continuing Accessibility Education Credits for maintaining Website Accessibility Specialist (WAS) and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) certification through the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP).
About Us & Our Events
We're a global group of developers, designers, and users interested in building more accessible websites. Join us twice per month for meetups on a variety of topics related to making WordPress and other websites that can be used by people of all abilities.
Meetups are held on the first Thursday and third Tuesday of the month at 8 AM Pacific. All groups are held virtually via Zoom, so you can join from anywhere. All meetups are live-captioned, and some have ASL interpretations. We encourage speakers to verbally describe imagery for people who cannot see the presentation.
Get Recaps & Stay Connected
To get email reminders about events and notices meetup recording as available post-event, join our email list.
We invite you to connect with other attendees and members between meetups to discuss accessibility in our Facebook Group.
You can find presentation recordings and transcripts on the Equalize Digital meetup webpage.
Sponsors
This meetup is organized by Equalize Digital, a company that specializes in WordPress accessibility. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, we are able to provide live captions and (occasionally) ASL interpreters. Learn about sponsoring here.
Interested in speaking?
We'd love to hear what you have to say and learn more about how you use WordPress to build accessible websites! Send the lead organizer, Amber Hinds, a message with your talk idea.
Code of Conduct
Please note that this group is a welcoming space for all, and all members must follow the WordPress Online Code of Conduct. By joining our group, you agree to abide by these guidelines. If you have concerns that the Online Code of Conduct is not being followed, please contact an organizer.
Upcoming events
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WordPress Accessibility Day
·OnlineOnlineWordPress Accessibility Day is a 24-hour global event dedicated to promoting and learning website accessibility best practices for WordPress websites.
The conference is pre-approved for continuing education credits for the International Association of Accessibility Professionals Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) and Certified Professional in Core Competencies (CPACC) certifications.
Sessions will be held via Zoom with live captions and American Sign Language interpretation.
See the schedule and register to attend for free.
Registered attendees will be able to watch videos the entire month of October, so register to attend even if you can't tune in on the 7th, and you can watch videos when it works for you.
Keynote: The Renaissance of Achievement for People with Disabilities
Ed Summers, Head of Accessibility at GitHub
Generative AI technology is evolving rapidly with enormous potential for people with disabilities. Join Ed Summers, a blind developer and Head of Accessibility at GitHub, for an exploration of positive impacts that are emerging within the disability community.Additional talks:
- Accessibility Is Not Enough: What We Learned
- Building the Website for The Dot Experience
- Your Accessibility Policy Is Collecting Dust. We Reviewed 5,000. Here’s What We Found.
- Band-Aids on Broken Code: Why Accessibility. Plugins Can’t Replace Human Skill
- You Didn’t Fix Accessibility. You Automated the Problem: AI in the WordPress Ecosystem
- Embedded Alt Text: Smarter Image Workflows in WordPress 7.0
- From Plugin to Product Experience: Accessibility Lessons from Improving WooCommerce Extension Onboarding
- What if we choose accessibility over beauty? My story with epilepsy
- Fix It Before It Exists: Accessibility Through Style Guides
- From Compliance to Conversion: How Accessibility in WordPress Expands Reach, Trust, and Revenue
- AI, accessibility, and WordPress: deciding what to trust, test, and do yourself
- Why Accessibility Bugs Survive Modern Development Workflows
- The PDF Trap: When Accessible Websites Still Exclude Users
- Making accessibility actionable: clear, testable acceptance criteria
- Who Owns Accessibility After a WordPress Site Launches?
- Accessibility and neurodivergence: Not everyone navigates the same way
- Do accessibility personas actually work?
- I Built WordPress Sites for Years Without Thinking About Accessibility — Here's What I Wish I Knew
- Nobody Budgets for Accessibility Until You Make the Case Right
- What Accessibility Research Taught Me About Building Better Content Experiences
- Mind the Focus: Keeping Users on Track
- When Does Zoom Become an Accessibility Failure?
- Real-World Remediation Pushback
Register to attend today!
2 attendees
Using Accessibility Checker Pro + Claude AI to Remediate a Large WordPress Site
·OnlineOnlineCourtney 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
About the Speaker: Courtney Robertson
Courtney Robertson is a WordPress contributor and co-founding board member of The WP Open Community Collective. A computer science educator and full-stack developer, she shares practical insights on contributing to open source and supporting sustainable funding for developers. Offstage, she plays a 7-string electric violin, experiments with 3D printing, hikes with her camera, and tends her vegetable garden.Thank you to our sponsors:
- Live captions and post-event transcription: GoDaddy
- Organizer: Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker
- Your Business here! Learn about sponsorship
Event Details:
This meetup will be held at 8 AM Pacific via Zoom webinars.Registration on Zoom is required to attend. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3717875859120/WN_2z0ZEUBhT2uCp5QXFrRf0w
Accessibility & Accommodations:
This meetup will be held virtually over Zoom and live captioned.Slide links will be provided when applicable, and presenters are encouraged to make slides as accessible as possible with alternative text for images, etc.
We're working to secure sponsors so that we can offer ASL interpretation.
All are welcome to attend. If you need specific accommodations to make this meetup work for you, please contact an organizer, and we will try our best to accommodate you.
Code of Conduct:
Please note that this group is a welcoming space for all, and all members must follow the WordPress Online Code of Conduct.By RSVPing to this meetup, you agree to abide by these guidelines. If you have concerns that the Online Code of Conduct is not being followed, please contact an organizer.
3 attendees
Progress, Not Panic: A Practical Approach to Your Title II Deadline
·OnlineOnlineIn 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.
This webinar takes place via Zoom and is live captioned. You must register to attend via Zoom.
Amber Hinds
CEO at Equalize Digital
Amber Hinds is the CEO of Equalize Digital, Inc., a mission-driven organization specializing in WordPress accessibility, maker of the Accessibility Checker plugin, and lead organizer of the WordPress Accessibility Meetup.Through her work at Equalize Digital, Amber is striving to create a world where all people have equal access to information and tools on the internet, regardless of ability. Since 2010, she has led teams building websites and web applications for nonprofits, K-12 and higher education institutions, government agencies, and businesses of all sizes, and has become a passionate accessibility advocate.
Chris Hinds
COO at Equalize Digital
Chris Hinds is the COO of Equalize Digital, Inc., a company specializing in WordPress accessibility. He oversees the business development, human resources, and financial operations of the company, and acts as an early-stage accessibility consultant for countless organizations who are looking to create more accessible outcomes with WordPress.Chris and the team at Equalize Digital believe that one day, all people will have access to information and tools on the internet, regardless of ability. In support of that vision, the company focuses on products, services, public advocacy, and education that advance the cause of accessibility and empower others to be agents for positive change in their respective organizations.
3 attendees
I Didn’t Realize WCAG Meant That! with Cam Coulter
·OnlineOnlineCam 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:
- Describe requirements under WCAG Guideline 1.2 Time-based Media and plan accordingly.
- Explain WCAG 1.4.5 Images of Text and its higher-level implications for organizations.
- Identify other WCAG 2.2 AA requirements with implications for common design choices (such as carousels).
About the Speaker
Cam Coulter is a writer and accessibility nerd, among other things, who thinks incessantly about ethical technology, speculative fiction, and intentional community. They work at Santa Clara University as Deputy ADA/504 Coordinator for Digital Accessibility, where they support people who use assistive technology and work to improve campus-wide digital accessibility. Cam is a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA), and they have previously worked as an Accessibility Consultant at Level Access as well as in disability services, directly supporting adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.Thank you to our sponsors:
- Live captions and post-event transcription: Kinsta
- Organizer and host: Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker
- Your Business here! Learn about sponsorship
Event Details:
This meetup will be held at 8 AM Pacific via Zoom webinars.Registration on Zoom is required to attend. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3017857665135/WN_KDGTwNBQSxaMKLRjm_5zOw
Accessibility & Accommodations:
This meetup will be held virtually over Zoom and live captioned.Slide links will be provided when applicable, and presenters are encouraged to make slides as accessible as possible with alternative text for images, etc.
We're working to secure sponsors so that we can offer ASL interpretation.
All are welcome to attend. If you need specific accommodations to make this meetup work for you, please contact an organizer, and we will try our best to accommodate you.
Code of Conduct:
Please note that this group is a welcoming space for all, and all members must follow the WordPress Online Code of Conduct.By RSVPing to this meetup, you agree to abide by these guidelines. If you have concerns that the Online Code of Conduct is not being followed, please contact an organizer.
2 attendees
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