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You have a dedicated audience that comes to your site every day to read your content. They take the time to sit down and engage with what you’ve written. Unfortunately, that’s not possible for everyone. People are incredibly busy and aren’t taking the time to sit down and read an article. Users are listening to podcasts and music while they’re driving to work or cleaning the house. If you’re not considering these people, you could be missing out on potential viewers. With the Amazon Polly plugin, you can now reach anyone anywhere. The plugin, co-authored by AWS and WP Engine, […]

Accessibility has been a huge conversation in WordPress recently. At WordCamp US in 2017, nearly half of the talks focused on accessibility issues. It is an area where many sites can do better. While there are many plugins and tools to help boost accessibility, one area WordPress falls a bit short is text to speech. This is an invaluable tool for anyone who is vision impaired. Screen readers are out there but they can be clunky and if a site isn’t optimized for them, they can fail. In order to further these efforts and a partnership with WordPress, Amazon released […]

Just when you thought it was safe to conduct business with the European Union (EU) after the Cookie Law situation, along came the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) initiative. However, unlike the Cookie Law, the impact of this change on WordPress website owners could be significant – so it pays to comply. In short, the GDPR provides a method for users to control the way their data is collected and used, so it’s crucial for anyone who regularly deals with clients in the EU to understand. There are some important aspects for you to consider (such as how you currently […]