Free Training: WordPress: Accessibility

WordPress expert Joe Dolson’s course teaches you how to build fully accessible websites using modern WordPress features. It covers accessible themes, plugins, content creation, testing, and remediation so you can confidently assess and improve accessibility across your sites.

Feb. 17, 2026 By Christopher Jordan, Technology Services - Student Affairs

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Instructor: Joe Dolson
Released: 06/09/2023
Length: ~2hours, 50 minutes
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Advanced
Purpose: To build, evaluate, and maintain fully accessible WordPress websites using modern tools, themes, plugins, and best practices.

WordPress: Accessibility

WordPress expert Joe Dolson’s course teaches you how to build fully accessible websites using modern WordPress features. It covers accessible themes, plugins, content creation, testing, and remediation so you can confidently assess and improve accessibility across your sites.

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This course will provide the following:

1. Technical SEO Foundations for WordPress
  • What is technical SEO?
  • Navigating WordPress
  • Implementing SEO elements in WordPress
2. Do-It-All SEO Plugins and Tools
  • Yoast SEO
  • RankMath
  • W3 Total Cache
  • Using TechnicalSEO.com
  • Using Smush to optimize images
3. Assessing Your Technical SEO
  • Preparing your technical SEO worksheet
  • Setting up webmaster tools
4. Crawlability and Crawl Behavior
  • Introduction to crawlers
  • Crawling tools
  • Crawling your site
  • Creating and testing a robots.txt file
5. Indexability and Site Architecture
  • Indexability and site architecture
  • Fixing indexation issues
  • Creating and managing sitemaps
  • Site errors and redirects
  • Finding broken and orphan links
  • Improving structure and architecture
  • Enhancing understandability with schema
  • Inserting structured data
6. Renderability and Rankability
  • Renderability
  • Setting up and improving canonicals
  • HTTP vs. HTTPS
  • Fixing and improving meta elements
7. Page Experience and Mobile Friendliness
  • Page experience and mobile friendliness
  • Google Speed Insights
  • Mobile-friendly testing
  • Optimizing images
  • Measuring site performance
  • Core Web Vitals