In two short weeks, I’ll be attending the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference in Anaheim, California. I’ve gone to this conference many times, and I know that it’s an amazing opportunity to connect with tons of people who are passionately invested in website accessibility. And during this trip, I’m hoping to gather information to help steer the future development of Able Player. I’m looking to book conversations with anybody who has considered using Able Player: I’m using Calendly to book meetings. […]
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Able Player 4.8.0 and Able Player for WordPress 2.3.0 Released
Able Player 4.8.0 is now available! All the details about what’s changed in this release are available in my previous post: the Release Candidate announcement and call for translators. This is an exciting release for a few reasons: but most importantly, it’s my first steps towards removing the jQuery dependency. jQuery is deeply built into Able Player, so removing that is going to take time – but reducing the dependency so it only requires the slim build of Able Player […]
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Major updates to both My Calendar and My Calendar Pro went out today. The most significant user-facing change is the switch from using a elements for navigation to using button elements for navigation. This only applies if you have AJAX navigation enabled; if you’re using page refreshes to navigate My Calendar, the navigation will render as links. This is intended to fix two issues: an accessibility concern where the element used to navigate didn’t match the way navigation works when […]
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I’m just getting the release candidate for Able Player 4.8 ready. This isn’t as large a release as the last one, but it does include some pretty significant changes! The most significant changes are in internationalization and in my progress towards removing jQuery and cookies. The release is currently scheduled for February 2nd, 2026; but could get pushed if there are new bugs in the release candidate that need fixing first. Internationalization Until this release, translations have existed as properties […]
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We tend to agree easily that all accessibility issues are important, but we also acknowledge out of necessity that some issues are more critical than others. What we don’t always agree on is how to judge severity. There are very good reasons for that: it’s complicated! There’s no pretending that figuring out how important something is has an undercurrent of judging who matters more. But that’s not really what we’re doing when we try to decide what issues are more […]
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