ByDan Knauss
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Matt Shaw shows how WordPress handles HTML email and how plugins can supplement it. Matt says, “While WordPress core has a way to go before it has good support of HTML emails, plugin developers have helped to pick up some of the slack.”
Ben Myers dives deep into the three attributes that bring clarity to HTML elements in assistive technologies: aria-label, aria-labelledby and aria-describedby. 🤿
Here’s a free HTML email check and validation tool – paste your code and it will note any notices and bugs while offering some suggestions. It wasn’t particularly impressed with my email source code, so I presume it’s pretty good…
WordPress 6.1 rolls out on November 1. Help test 6.1 Release Candidate 3 — and the Rollback feature plugin. Be sure to look over the 6.1 DevNotes, Field Guides, and Team Updates.
Chris Johnson has designed a tool to identify ways to improve the flow of your site, which he calls “Logical Content Flow.” This describes “the natural hierarchal flow when headings are applied to HTML content correctly as per the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.” 🧑🦯
Scott Jehl shares the simplest way to load CSS asynchronously using a simple HTML approach: link to the stylesheet with the media type attribute set to print. Then use the onload to apply it to all media types once it’s loaded. Scott’s explanation and discussion of some alternative methods is outstanding. 👍
Is there a return to text-focused publishing on the web underway? If so, what does that mean for WordPress?
