#133 – Blake Bertuccelli-Booth on Automated Accessibility Testing in WordPress

On the podcast today we have Blake Bertuccelli-Booth, a web designer and founder of Equalify, a company focused on improving web accessibility. Blake's journey into web accessibility advocacy began through his work with higher education organisations and his personal experiences with dyslexia. The episode gets into Blake's development of an automated tool that surveys websites for accessibility issues, revealing over 2.1 million issues across wordpress.org properties. Blake discusses the moral imperative of web accessibility, its real-world impacts, and the need for better education for developers and designers. If you're passionate about web accessibility or eager to learn how your work can make a tangible difference in people's lives, this episode is for you.

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