Part of good web design is informed decision-making for WordPress accessibility. Focusing on accessibility will enhance your website’s user experience, improve your site’s search engine optimization, and keep your company from facing costly lawsuits. But before you make accessibility a priority in your web design process, you have to understand what it is and what…
From the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Here’s a checklist “for meetings, conferences, training, and presentations that are remote/virtual, in-person, or hybrid.” And here’s a website with pages under 1kB from Brad Taunt who is maintaining a list of sites with a similar page weight called the 1kB Club. (Like the 1MB Club but smaller.)…
WordPress is 19! • WP 6.0 news and Beta 4 release. • JetPack 10.9 • BuddyPress Rewrites 1.1.0 • Simple Local Avatars 2.3.0 • InMotion funds WCUS scholarships • RSS and Blogging FTW • Wishlist Member acquired • New leadership team at Yoast • and the rest of your weekly WP news roundup!
Bet Hannon, Eric Karkovack, Maciek Palmowski, and Rae Morey join David to share their reactions to the State of the Word 2021.
Here is some exciting information about the CSS image() function which is a new W3C spec feature. Although it’s not well-supported in browsers yet, the CSS image function will give us more control over image loading in CSS. It will even be possible to crop images via CSS and load an image type based on…
Sarah Gooding has reported at WPTavern that the W3C and the agency it selected to redesign its website, Studio 24, dropped WordPress from consideration in a selection process that has ended with Craft CMS as the winner. First off, kudos to Craft CMS. I haven’t had a chance to give it a try yet, but…
W3C has approved WebAuthn as the web standard for “password-free logins”, letting “users log into online accounts using biometrics, mobile devices, and/or FIDO security keys.” 🔐 It will be interesting to see how this develops and impacts WordPress. Nearly all browsers currently support WebAuthn. Gary Pendergast shared his views about WebAuthn, noting that “a WebAuthn-based model would be…
This mention of “Webmentions” by Drew McLellan caught my attention. Webmention is a W3C Recommendation and similar in concept to Pingbacks. (It also seems adapted to deal with some of Pingback’s weaknesses.) I’ll admit not hearing about Webmentions until I read Drew’s post. There’s at least one WordPress plugin you can install to try out…
WordPress 4.6, “Pepper”, has been released with shiny plugin management, system fonts, link syntax checking, resource hints, and more. This release post includes a special episode of the podcast.
WordPress 4.6 is rolling on, currently in Beta 2. The release includes a handful of new minor features, and you’ll certainly want to test your products and important sites prior to the full release. Now is the time to do so! The Make WordPress Core posts have started to show up, as is common around…
Big companies are jockeying for position with regard to how content is published and how it is shown on the web, and WordPress is right in the middle of it all. Requiring new formats of web pages for tools like Google’s AMP or Facebook Instant Articles feels, in a way, like an extension of what started…
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