A list of my WordPress plugins and their statii
A list of 13 plugins I’ve built that are at least generally intended for public use.
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Stuff I’ve built & contributed to recently
I’ve had a confluence of lingering projects and long-ago filed issues all coming to life!
New mobile-friendly interactive park tours for a Seattle nonprofit
This new, mobile-friendly interactive self-guided tour feature for a Seattle nonprofit is one of the coolest things I’ve built in a long time.
Why forms are so useful for your nonprofit’s website
Websites are for solving problems and increasing impact, and forms are one of the most useful tools in the website toolkit.
How to send a webhook request with PHP from one WordPress site to another using WP Webhooks [Technical]
I lost an hour to this problem, so I’m blogging it to hopefully help others. I’m experimenting with the WP Webhooks plugin for helping me solve a problem with sites that I manage.1 Webhooks are a simple technology that lets a “request” to a specific URL that then completes some other action. That request contains … Continue reading “How to send a webhook request with PHP from one WordPress site to another using WP Webhooks [Technical]”
AI & Accessibility
I’m feeling pretty glib about “AI” and “Large Language Models” producing accessible outcomes for nonprofit websites or anything else. Hopefully I’m wrong, but I’ll need a lot of convincing.
Fieldnotes from the 2024 Washington State Nonprofits Conference
This year, I attended sessions about common legal problems for nonprofits, human-centric AI, and no-code tools.
Writing Alt Text for Headshots on your Nonprofit’s Website
Lots of nonprofits have headshots on their websites and those images need alternative text! Here are the considerations I take when writing alt text for this specific purpose.
24NTC Field Notes: Day 3
A really great NTC wrapped up with more good sessions about calm tech, language justice, and user testing. Then I spent a super fun weekend in Portland with my family.
24NTC Field Notes: Day 2
Phew! Another long, but very fun and engaging day at NTC. I got to think a lot about how technology can broadly be used to reimagine what is possible for our society, but also talk brass tacks with fellow website builders. It was a good day!
24NTC Field Notes: Day 1
I presented and then attended three other great sessions on “meetings for teams of one”, ethical AI, and planning inclusive projects. See my slides and resources or read my notes from the other presentations.
Thought-provoking pushback on visual descriptions of speakers in meetings and events
It’s become a common practice in some circles for speakers to provide a description of their physical appearance before speaking. Based on my learnings from blind and low-vision people, I want to be critical in how I approach this accessibility accommodation.
Where to find me at 24NTC
I am so excited to be heading to Portland for the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference. For friends looking to connect or new folks hoping to meet, here are the places I know I’ll be during the conference.
Pop-ups win the Pepsi Challenge
I’m guessing you don’t like pop-ups. So why do so many sites use them? Should they, even if they “work”? Let’s re-use a tired metaphor to talk about it!
2023 Site Launch Recap
I launched a number of large projects for clients in 2023 and saw some consistent trends among them. Take a tour through the projects and learn what tied them together.
Notes from “Beyond WCAG Compliance” at the WP Accessibility Meetup
I’m always interested in how other people approach evaluating websites for accessibility and helping website owners fix them. This presentation covered how one company does that, and I really liked a lot of what they had to say!