Joe Dolson

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

Community Spotlight: @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social (#ID24) is back on 25 September 2025

24 hours. 24 talks. All focused on inclusive design.
Free, online, and built with accessibility at the core.
Details: inclusivedesign24.org/2025

#InclusiveDesign #A11y #WPAD2025

Digital Twins: Simulating Humans with Generative AI. Title of an article on Nielsen Norman Group's website by Raluca Budiu, posted on August 1, 2025. The article summary reads, "A digital twin is a genAI-based model of a particular individual that can be used to predict both individual and population-level preferences and behaviors." Cropped screenshot.

Nielsen Norman Group has completely lost the plot.

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Missed this? The Accessibility Show #7: Looking deeper after automated testing https://www.joedolson.com/2025/07/accessibility-show-7-after-automated-testing/

New post: The Accessibility Show #7: Looking deeper after automated testing https://www.joedolson.com/2025/07/accessibility-show-7-after-automated-testing/

Guess I'll stick to my existing plan of not bothering. Thanks for taking one for the team!

Can we please stop putting fragrance in hand sanitizer?

Accessibility debt piles up fast. Fixing it shouldn’t burn out your team.

Join @a11ymel.bsky.social (HashiCorp) and @ericwbailey.website (GitHub) for a live session on how to reduce A11y debt without overwhelming your team.

🗓 July 24, 12PM EDT
🔗 save your spot: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Why I don’t trust WCAG 2.2 and what I’m hoping from 3.0 - LogRocket Blog You can follow WCAG 2.2 and still build inaccessible products. Here's what I want from WCAG 3.0.

“Why I don’t trust WCAG 2.2 and what I’m hoping from 3.0”
blog.logrocket.com/ux-design/wc...

Disappointing because it fails to recognize *when* WCAG 2 was written, *how* consensus happens. Also assumes WCAG 3 will somehow achieve more and avoid manipulation of scoring model.

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#accessibility

New post: Why use Able Player instead of `video`? https://www.joedolson.com/2025/07/why-use-able-player-instead-of-video/

Announcing Vitaly Friedman as our 2025 Keynote Speaker - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025 We are excited to announce that this year’s keynote speaker for WordPress Accessibility Day will be Vitaly Friedman. Vitaly is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, a leading…

Keynote announcement!
Vitaly Friedman (@vitalyf.bsky.social), Co-founder of Smashing Magazine (@smashingmagazine.com), is speaking at @wpaccessibility.day 2025.

October 15 at 15:00 UTC
Topic: Accessible Design Patterns for 2025

Get the details: 2025.wpaccessibility.day/announcing-v...

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5 web features I find annoying as a blind person - Scope for Business Holly, a blind screenreader user, explains the main accessibility barriers she faces every day. Bad heading structure, alt-text, links, forms

For screen reader users like Holly Tuke, accessibility is the difference between being able to use a website and clicking away. In this post, Holly shares the most annoying barriers she encounters as a blind person, and how to fix them.

business.scope.org.uk/article/5-mo...

Meet the WP Accessibility Translation Team

Heard about the newly available translated sessions from past WP Accessibility Day events? Now, meet the team making it happen.

Led by Joni Halabi, our translators are helping share accessibility insights with the world.

Learn more about the team: buff.ly/57yY86Z

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Screen reader HTML support tables - TetraLogical With the addition of Gez Lemon to the editing team, work continues on expanding and improving the HTML and screen reader support information.

Screen reader HTML support tables

"With the addition of Gez Lemon to the editing team, work continues on expanding and improving the HTML and screen reader support information."

#HTML #screenReader #NVDA #JAWS #a11y

tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07...

STOP USING AI FOR ALT TEXT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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Jonathan and Joe laughing and talking to Nathan, who's back is to the camera and is out of focus in the foreground. Photo credit: Roberto Vázquez (https://www.flickr.com/photos/wceu/54571191300/).

While at @wceurope.bsky.social in Basel, I was invited to sit down with @nathanwrigley.com and @joedolson.bsky.social to discuss the suggestion that accessibility features should be built and maintained within a canonical plugin.

Quality is a trap It is a proxy phrase, often born of an inability or unwillingness to articulate other concerns.

I wrote about why I'm tired of reading about takes on quality. ericwbailey.website/published/qu...

Missed this? Able Player for WordPress: version 2.0 https://www.joedolson.com/2025/06/able-player-for-wordpress-version-2-0/

Missed this? Able Player version 4.6.0 https://www.joedolson.com/2025/06/able-player-version-4-6-0/

New post: Able Player version 4.6.0 https://www.joedolson.com/2025/06/able-player-version-4-6-0/

New post: Able Player for WordPress: version 2.0 https://www.joedolson.com/2025/06/able-player-for-wordpress-version-2-0/ #a11y #AblePlayer

New post: Able Player version 4.6.0 https://www.joedolson.com/2025/06/able-player-version-4-6-0/

New post: Able Player for WordPress: version 2.0 https://www.joedolson.com/2025/06/able-player-for-wordpress-version-2-0/ #a11y #AblePlayer

AspirePress: The Quiet Project Powering FAIR's Infrastructure Founded by developer and agency owner Sarah Savage in the weeks following WordCamp US 2024, AspirePress was born out of concern that WordPress.org had become a single point of failure for the WordPres...

AspirePress: The Quiet Project Powering FAIR's Infrastructure

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Security updates will cease for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6 The WordPress Security Team will cease providing updates for WordPress versions 4.1 – 4.6 in July 2025. Officially only the latest version of WordPress is supported. The Security Team histori…

The @wordpress.org Security Team will be discontinuing updates to the WP 4.1-4.6 branches in July.

As a reminder: only the most recent version of WordPress is actively supported. Currently, this is 6.8.

Please update your sites today!

Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you’re trying to c…

If you’ve paid attention to my ramblings over the last decade-plus, then you’ve heard me to talk about selfish accessibility.

It’s nice to see others embrace it.

“Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs”
nolanlawson.com/2025/06/16/s...

#accessibility #a11y

📝 Extended some thoughts I posted yesterday about @redwoodjs.com and how I'm impressed by its new set of principles.

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