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Back to WordPress! With a Focus on Web Accessibility…

Image Description: Laptop with a white screen. The wheelchair icon in a yellow diamond sign is centred on the computer screen.

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Well, I’m back to blogging. On my new Wordpress set-up.

Here’s some advice to all of you bloggers and would-be bloggers out there: If you’re going to move your large blog off WordPress to another platform, be darned sure that you’re going to be satisfied enough with the new platform that you’re not going to want to move back. Because it’s very easy to move a large blog off of WordPress…it’s a hell of a lot of work to move it back on.

Especially if you’re committed to making your blog as Accessible as possible.

An Apology Re: Accessibilty

Despite all my talk about physical Accessibility, I’ve historically not been very good about ensuring that the blog is as web accessible as it could be, and that’s not something that I feel good about. Until this summer I didn’t really know what it took to make a website accessible, but as someone who at least knew that it was possible for websites to have accessibility barriers on them that could be fixed, I should have taken the time to investigate my own site for barriers and fix what I could.

I’m sorry.

What Brought This On and Where I’m Going Now

This summer I took a course in auditing websites for accessibility. I know what the issues were on the old blog. I’m trying to clean them up on this blog, post by post. I moved from Medium partly because I didn’t have enough access to the code to do that.

I’m trying to clean up at least 5 posts a day, but this will take a little while. Give me until Labour Day. If after then you still spot accessibility issues – like photos without alt text or an image description, or uncaptioned videos (CNN videos are bad for having no captions) where there isn’t an option on the YouTube frame to turn them on and I haven’t provided a transcript, please let me know at [email protected].

And for those that have trouble seeing the self-hosted blog, I’ll still cross-post to Medium publication.

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