What to Know About Creating Accessible Podcasts

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In his Going Beyond the Listener: Accessible Audio for Podcasting webinar for 3PlayMedia, Nic Steenhout shared his tips and insights for creating accessible podcasts.

Web accessibility consultant and host of the popular A11y Rules podcast, Steenhout discussed the benefits of accessible podcasting, what makes up an accessible podcast (it’s more than a transcript), and highlighted features to consider in the platform and tools you use.

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Takeaways from State of the Word 2021

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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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Takeaways from Writing the the Web: The Six Step LUCID Writing Approach

Writing for the Web: The Six Step LUCID Writing Approach that Gets Your Message Across.

In his Writing for the Web: The Six Step LUCID Writing Approach that Gets Your Message Across webinar hosted by UXPA International, Charlie Kreitzberg, Senior User Experience Advisor at Princeton University, shared his insights on creating communications that successfully get your message across.

Kreitzberg discussed the importance of understanding your audience as he provided practical tips on how writers, content strategists, and user experience professionals can organize, create, and design content.

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