Improve Your A11Y Skills + A WordPress Periodic Table #072

I don’t know about you, but this week felt like the shortest week ever. I distinctly remember waking up on Monday, blinked twice, and now we’re Friday? I mean…

I did manage to publish a new edition of my Within WordPress podcast with Juliette Reinders Folmer , and I recorded three more episodes as well. Experimented with a video format of this newsletter as well. Let me know what you think on any of these!

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🗞️ Inside WordPress News

Something super cool I came across this week and want to highlight first is this:

We all know our WordPress solutions should be accessible (A11Y for short) to all, right? And I’m betting most of you know how to do the basic stuff in your code, with your images, etc. But a deep understanding is lacking for most of us. Myself included. The A11Y Collective is here to help you solve your lack of knowledge. They offer an e-learning platform that offers you all kinds of courses to help bridge that gap. So, from basic web accessibility to masterclasses and advanced coding courses. Thursday next week will be Global Accessibility Awareness Day and the A11Y Collective is doing something incredibly cool with that day. They’re giving everyone the chance to enroll in their courses by letting you decide the price yourself. And for the record, their courses are IAAP approved .

I mean, how cool is that? That is accessible on so many levels that I think we need a new word for that! Go check it out !

WooCommerce is running their Developer Survey 2023 . Make yourself be heard!
Make, a service quite similar to Zapier, shared an interesting way to automate your WordPress SEO analysis with Make . Very practical example.

I like solutions like these a lot. Automate all the things, I say.

Pascal Birchler shared one of the coolest things I’ve seen in years related to WordPress, but not a WordPress plugin, theme, or tool. It’s called Plugin Table and it’s probably not what you think. But you may want a copy on your wall (in celebration of WordPress turning 20).

Yes, cryptic, but I just want you to click that link 😂

We fi-nal-LY have a super easy-to-use tool to translate WordPress directly inside WordPress . One of the first examples I’m seeing built with the new WordPress Playground tool .
Very few folks are releasing as much as Ronald Huereca is these days. Super impressed with the quality of his plugins as well as his tutorials. This week, he shared Mastering Actions And Filters In WordPress Development . Super solid.

🚀 Performance

Google published an explainer on how to use the Web Vitals extension to debug Core Web Vitals issues.

I do enjoy how they do their best to share valuable information on the web.dev blog lately.

Dan Ramos shares a ”live” audit of a WordPress over on YouTube .

My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:

🔆 Inside WordPress Highlight

Should you, or should you not include a Home link to your website navigation. This has been a debate for ages. Turns out, the answer is not as straight forward , but there is an answer.

Nice the see this in-depth analysis done by The Admin Bar. Nice one, Kyle !

Some of my favorite WordPress tools:

The most versatile and accessible form solution for WordPress
LocalWP, the easiest to use local dev solution

💡 Interesting Finds

Display your design into bad conditions . Because the world isn’t as perfect as many mockups pretend.

A big step away from the ”it needs to look perfect first” approach in mockups, and think this is absolutely wonderful.

📖 What I am reading

No time to read anything substantial this week, but I am curious about what you read. Please let me know what the last essay, book or article was that captured you by replying!

🎁 Bonus

Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder. This interesting tool called 12ft.io prepends 12ft.io/ to a URL of any paywalled page, and they’ll try their best to remove the paywall and get you access to the article.

That’s it for this week’s edition of Inside WordPress. Thanks for reading!