This episode is a recording of an October 2026 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. In this meetup, Courtney Robertson shared a practical case study of running Equalize Digital’s Accessibility Checker Pro across her long-running WordPress site (including a large archive of older posts), then feeding those scan results into Claude Code to automate fixes. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% free and virtual community resource that take place via Zoom webinars twice a month.

For show notes and a full transcript, go to AccessibilityCraft.com/187.

Is there such a thing as practical accessibility magic?

Inspired by October, Practical Magic, and a “Lime in the Coconut” Milkshake Sour DIPA from Blue Owl Brewing, Amber, Chris, and Steve open their "spellbooks" and dive in... They’re looking for the changes that can make a real difference to a website's accessibility conformance.

Speaking of conformance levels, the conversation begins with the latest WCAG 3 draft. What might replace the familiar A, AA, and AAA conformance levels? How could reporting change? Listen, or read, to find out.

Then, our hosts put accessibility overlays under the “spell or curse?” test. The conversation draws on recent overlay research, accessibility guidance, and lawsuit data, but it also makes room for the people who installed a widget because they genuinely thought it would help.

And it isn't all about overlays, we talk about 5+ fixes that you can start implementing right now that are so impactful, the usability improvements can feel a bit like practical magic. Finally, the team discusses AI-assisted captions, translations, accessibility testing, and development, because these days what conversation is complete without a mini AI-related side tangent?

For show notes and a full transcript, go to AccessibilityCraft.com/186.

• (00:00:00) - Introduction
• (00:01:24) - Today's Beverage
• (00:08:53) - WCAG 3 Latest Draft: Our Reactions
• (00:18:18) - Practical Accessibility Magic Overview
• (00:18:49) - Brought to you by Accessibility Checker
• (00:20:03) - Spell, or Curse? We Talk About Overlays!
• (00:28:19) - Better Ingredients for Your "Magic" Accessibility Potions
• (00:33:06) - Can AI Help Us Cast Our Accessibility "Spells" Faster, Better?

This episode is a recording of an October 2026 WordPress Accessibility Meetup, brought to you by Equalize Digital. In this presentation, Deneb Pulsipher uses a real-world case study—the open-source plugin Polly Alt—to explore how we can ethically leverage generative AI as an accessibility aid by intentionally keeping a human in the loop. WordPress Accessibility Meetups are a 100% free and virtual community resource that takes place via Zoom webinars twice a month.

For show notes and a full transcript, go to AccessibilityCraft.com/185.