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Yoast is a company that helps improve your website's SEO. They created a plugin to make sites easier to find and use. Yoast also offers courses on SEO, including a new one on using AI to improve content. They support events like WordPress Accessibility Day and are working on making their own tools more accessible for everyone. Yoast cares about making the internet better and more inclusive for all users.

Meet one of our newly minted Gold sponsors – Yoast!

About Yoast

With the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin, you can improve your SEO efforts. Yoast believes that the mission of their software is to help people maximize their chances of success online. That means providing them with a solid technical foundation, giving them tools and resources, educating them, and helping them make the right decisions.

Get Started Easily with Yoast

If you’re unsure where to start, Yoast had that covered! With Yoast SEO academy, you can start with a wide range of courses covering topics like keyword research, SEO copywriting, hosting, and server configuration. From beginner to advanced, they have the right course for you.

Introducing Yoast’s New AI Course

With AI revolutionizing how we all approach SEO, now is the perfect time to harness its full potential and level up your skills. With the new Yoast AI for SEO course, you’ll learn to:

  • Create quicker high-quality and high-ranking content
  • Adapt SEO content strategies for a shared future with AI
  • Gain competitive advantage by integrating AI tools into your workflow

Why Yoast Supports WordPress Accessibility Day

Yoast is thrilled to be supporting WordPress Accessibility Day and has upgraded their sponsorship to Gold this year. 

Yoast sponsors dozens of WordCamps around the world. Big or small, they appreciate everyone who contributes to WordPress. Yoast wants to contribute to the community and ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to access WordPress related education. To promote this inclusive value, the Yoast Diversity fund aims to increase the diversity of the WordPress community by removing financial barriers for people from typically underrepresented groups in the tech industry. Also the Yoast Care fund offers a gift to a candidate who donates their time to WordPress for free.

All this underscores that Yoast supports the mission of WPAD to spread awareness on WordPress accessibility, recognizing the importance of accessible education as a prominent plugin maker in the WordPress community.

Inspired by Tailwind, Yoast Makes New Accessible Strides

Yoast is currently undergoing a redesign process, inspired by Tailwind UI. This is because Tailwind UI places significant emphasis on accessibility in their UIs and components. 

Here are some key areas where Tailwind UI (and consequently Yoast SEO) has made strides in improving accessibility:

  1. Accessible components: Tailwind UI’s components are designed with accessibility in mind. They provide accessible HTML structures and ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) attributes to ensure that users relying on screen readers or other assistive technologies can effectively interact with the interface.
  2. Keyboard navigation: Tailwind UI components support keyboard navigation, ensuring users can navigate through interactive elements (like menus and modals) without relying on a mouse. This is crucial for users with motor impairments.
  3. Focus management: Tailwind UI handles focus states appropriately, making sure that focusable elements are easily identifiable when navigating via keyboard. Proper focus management also ensures that focus is not lost or trapped, providing a smooth navigation experience.
  4. Color contrast: Tailwind UI adheres to WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) standards for color contrast, making sure that text is readable against its background. This helps users with visual impairments or color blindness.
  5. Semantic HTML: By using semantic HTML elements (like `<nav>`, `<button>`, `<header>`, etc.), Tailwind UI improves the accessibility and SEO of web pages. Semantic elements provide meaning to the content, which is crucial for screen readers and search engines.
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