Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker Plugin Adds New Frontend Highlighting Feature Funded by NASA
Equalize Digital, a WordPress accessibility products and services company, has added a new frontend highlighting feature to its free accessibility checker plugin, which is used to perform audits on self-hosted sites. The feature was funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), through Equalize Digital’s consulting work on the new NASA websites. NASA recently launched the beta version of its WordPress-powered flagship site, which WordCamp US attendees may hear about next week during the team’s sessions, including Friday’s keynote address: For All Userkind: NASA Web Modernization and WordPress and another presentation titled Hands on with NASA’s new digital platform. Equalize Digital was contracted to perform accessibility testing, user testing with screen reader users, and provide accessibility governance recommendations. “As part of the contract for those services, they also contracted us to develop this feature for the plugin,” Equalize Digital CEO Amber Hinds said. “They have an enterprise license but we decided in collaboration with them that we would make it a feature in the free plugin so everyone could benefit, not a paid-only feature. “They were actually really interested in that because it’s part of their mission to give back to humanity.” Prior to developing the frontend highlighting feature,…
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