About us
Virtual meetups on making WordPress 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 WordPress developers, designers, and users interested in building more accessible websites. Join us for meetups on a variety of topics related to making WordPress websites that can be used by people of all abilities. Meetups are held:
- First Thursday, 10-11:30 AM Central (5 PM CET) - 90 minutes
- Third Tuesday, 10-11 AM Central (5 PM CET) - 60 minutes
All meetups are held virtually via Zoom so you can join from anywhere and are live captioned. Some have American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation if sponsors can be found. 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 when the meetup recording is available post-event, join our email list.
Between meetups, we invite you to connect with other attendees and members in our Facebook Group to discuss WordPress accessibility. You can find presentation recordings and transcripts on the Equalize Digital meetup webpage.
Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors for covering the cost of transcription, live captions, and ASL interpreters. Current accessibility meetup sponsors include GoDaddy, Kinsta, and Equalize Digital. Learn about sponsoring here.
WordPress Global Community Sponsors help fund WordPress Meetup groups and WordCamps around the world. Thank you to WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Bluehost, and A2 Hosting for their support!
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! 2026 Call for Speakers
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.
Can't attend on the 7th or 8th? Register anyway! Registered attendees will be able to log into the Zoom Events platform through October 31st to watch recordings at any time.
See the schedule and register to attend for free.
Keynote: The Renaissance of Achievement for People with Disabilities
Ed Summers, Head of Accessibility at GitHubGenerative 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!
40 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
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 U.S. 8 AM Pacific, which is 10 AM U.S. Central, 4 PM in the UK, and 8:30 PM IST.RSVP to receive the link.
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.
36 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).
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 U.S. 8 AM Pacific, which is 10 AM U.S. Central, 4 PM in the UK, and 8:30 PM IST.RSVP to receive the link.
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.
30 attendees
Needs Review: How to QA and Fix Issues Flagged by Automated Scanners
·OnlineOnlineAutomated accessibility scanners like Accessibility Checker, WAVE, axe, and SiteImprove flag issues that require human review or judgment. When you see these issues, you need to assess if they are an accessibility failure and, if so, how to fix them. These “Needs Review” issues are among the most common issues we get asked about.
In this presentation, Amber will provide real-world examples of elements that flag in automated accessibility reports and discuss how to assess if they’re truly problems. Attendees will learn how to think critically about and act on reports delivered by Accessibility Checker and similar accessibility browser extensions.
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 U.S. 8 AM Pacific, which is 10 AM U.S. Central, 4 PM in the UK, and 8:30 PM IST.RSVP to receive the link.
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
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