Rapid Remediation

Clients are looking for big wins out of the gate, and users are looking for improvements that really matter. Rapid remediation tackles remediating the most common items with the biggest impact first.

I’ll be honest, you can get most sites to a pretty good place without ever reading half of the WCAG criteria. For example, there’s a criterion about remapping custom mapped keystrokes. You could easily test 1,000 webpages and never come across a custom mapped keystroke.

What platforms the course supports

The course will go over how to remediate at the concept level, then provide code specific goals and examples, an AI notes section, and will also include a WordPress specific solution. If you are using a platform besides WordPress, you’ll just look at the concept and the code examples and skip the WordPress specific examples. I use WordPress since it’s my primary development environment and powers over 40% of the web, more than 10x any other content management system.

Each lesson will include:

• Concept level: The specific WCAG criteria, what it means in terms of implementation, and best practices around that.
• Code: The goals of the code, and examples of the code to meet the requirement. In some cases it will also include the common code mistakes.
• AI notes: This will include notes regarding AI.
• WordPress solution: A specific example of how to fix this using WordPress.

Who this course is for

This course includes code. For some parts of remediation you will need to at the very least read & write CSS code. In a number of cases you will need to read HTML and understand what needs to be done to change the output HTML.

Included with this course is WordPress Component Tutorials which includes a number of tutorials on how to configure individual WordPress plugins.

People this course is good for:

• Developers feeling overwhelmed trying to go from theory of guidelines to practical implementation.
• Website designers installing plugins and determining which page builder will be used and which widgets/blocks will be used.
• Site admins trying to make improvements for accessibility.
• People who use platforms where they have the ability to modify the code (ie: WordPress, Shopify, custom applications).

People this course is not for:

• Content editors & creators. People who aren’t handling the “code” of the website, not installing plugins or configuring settings. They should go to the content creators course.
• Experienced developers who’ve been doing remediation for years.
• People who have closed source platforms (SquareSpace, Wix) where there is very little ability to make code changes, in that case follow the content creators course.