I found a fantastic blog post by Adobe about accessibility champion Dax Castro’s business CHAX Training and Consulting. I’ve been aware of Dax for about five years now, due to his free tutorials about PDF accessibility via InDesign during the livestreams of the Adobe Max conference. I encourage everybody who makes PDFs that get posted on the web to learn from Dax and his business partner Chad Celius. I have watched and re-watched several of their recorded training videos, and I find them so valuable!
Read the blog post: An accessibility champion’s journey to digital inclusion using Adobe’s transformative solutions
WordPress Accessibility Day
I watched a few of the talks during the previous livestream of WordPress Accessibility Day, and I found them so intriguing that I volunteered to emcee at the October 2024 event. I’ve been approved for a shift, and I have to say I’m pretty excited about the T-Shirt this year.
The T-Shirt says “:focus – It’s a feature, not a bug,” and it is meant to educate content creators that the highlight on elements that happens when one tabs through a webpage are meant to be there, so one should not remove the :focus element from one’s CSS.
Read the WordPress Accessibility Day News Feed.