How to Make Sure Your Accessible PDFs Stay Accessible in WordPress

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Imagine you have a dozen PDFs you plan to upload to the Resources page on your WordPress site. You’ve tagged and optimized each PDF so it has Searchable text Document language Document title Proper reading order Alternative text for non-text elements Hyperlinks, headings, table of contents, and bookmarks for navigational aids It’s taken several hours… Continue reading How to Make Sure Your Accessible PDFs Stay Accessible in WordPress

December 17, 2021: Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn how to include people with disabilities in your UX research, find a recap of Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word keynote address, discover the results of the 2021 State of CSS survey, and more. Continue reading December 17, 2021: Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

Takeaways from State of the Word 2021

Matt Mullenweg at the podium, dressed in a suit, with a Mac laptop with WordPress sticker on it.

The annual State of the Word keynote address took on a different look in 2021.

Held in New York City on December 14, 2021, the annual talk was a combination live event with small audience of WordPress community members (around 30 people) along with livestream.

In his two-hour talk, Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, discussed WordPress accomplishments, open source, and answered questions from the WordPress community.

Here are my notes.

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