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An accessibility widget is not compliance

Four accessibility checks a free scanner cannot settle

Between phone and desktop: the screen widths nobody checks

Three rules our AI works under, and the mistake behind each

The accessibility deadline for public websites moved a year. The standard did not

I stopped writing prompts. I brief a project manager.

AI rebuilt our blog’s front page. This is the review it did not pass

Does Google penalize AI-written posts? What its rule says, and what our own account shows

What Google Discover asks of a page: three checks, run on our own 15 posts

Is your WordPress RSS feed switched off? One setting had removed ours

AI is the race car. Your website still needs a driver.

AI brief, October 2026: seven things that matter if you run a website

600+ websites in my career: what stands behind that number, and what does not

The mouse wheel was changing our calculator’s numbers. Check yours.

How we use AI at Grafica, and the four things it is not allowed to do

Seven security checks for a business website: six from things we found, one from last month’s news

Writing code got cheap. Knowing it is right did not

A website migration is half measurement and half judgment. Here is which half is which

How we maintain WordPress sites on Kinsta: the routine, in order

What «Kinsta Select Partner» means when you hire us, and what it does not

Cuando su programación cambia, ¿cuántas páginas de su sitio se enteran?

¿Cuáles lotes quedan? El plano que lo contesta por usted

“The problem wasn’t the images”, A WooCommerce Website Migration Story.

The Invisible Powerhouse. How agencies scale with less risk.

How to scale your agency in 2026? Grafica’s guide to White Label Partnerships

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An accessibility widget is not compliance

A toolbar in the corner of a website does not make it compliant. Why an accessibility widget cannot meet WCAG for you,…

By Luis Gallego

On

October 19, 2026

A young accessibility tester presses a key on a laptop with blank keys; on the screen a bright outline marks the one block the keyboard focus has reached.

How-to

Four accessibility checks a free scanner cannot settle

We ran a free scanner on our own blog, then pressed the Tab key. Four accessibility checks a scanner cannot settle, and…

By Luis Gallego

On

October 18, 2026

A young test engineer turns one tablet in a long row of phones and tablets of every size, standing upright on a white bench in a bright testing room.

How-to

Between phone and desktop: the screen widths nobody checks

Responsive design testing usually means a phone and a laptop. We read our own contact page at 141 widths and found the…

By Luis Gallego

On

October 17, 2026

An agency owner pins the third of three blank cards to a cork strip above her desk; the first two were redone.

Company

Three rules our AI works under, and the mistake behind each

Three rules for working with AI that Grafica's agents follow, each traced to a dated mistake: absences, remembered…

By Luis Gallego

On

October 16, 2026

A young blind man at a library table swipes through a phone with its screen switched off, listening to it read aloud, a folded white cane beside his arm.

How-to

The accessibility deadline for public websites moved a year. The standard did not

The ADA Title II deadline for public websites moved to April 2027 and 2028. The standard stayed WCAG 2.1 AA. What it…

By Luis Gallego

On

October 15, 2026

An agency owner briefs a project manager, who lays blank task cards in columns on a large table.

Company

I stopped writing prompts. I brief a project manager.

How Grafica runs its work through one AI project manager: one brief per task, one project per chat, and a written…

By Luis Gallego

On

October 14, 2026

A carpenter kneels at a restaurant doorway and screws a pale oak ramp over the stone step while the owner, in a violet sweater, holds the door open.

A young accessibility tester presses a key on a laptop with blank keys; on the screen a bright outline marks the one block the keyboard focus has reached.

A young test engineer turns one tablet in a long row of phones and tablets of every size, standing upright on a white bench in a bright testing room.

An agency owner pins the third of three blank cards to a cork strip above her desk; the first two were redone.

A young blind man at a library table swipes through a phone with its screen switched off, listening to it read aloud, a folded white cane beside his arm.

An agency owner briefs a project manager, who lays blank task cards in columns on a large table.

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An accessibility widget is not compliance

By Luis Gallego

3 Min Read

A toolbar in the corner of a website does not make it compliant. Why an accessibility widget cannot meet WCAG for you, and what to do instead.

A young accessibility tester presses a key on a laptop with blank keys; on the screen a bright outline marks the one block the keyboard focus has reached.

Four accessibility checks a free scanner cannot settle

By Luis Gallego

2 Min Read

We ran a free scanner on our own blog, then pressed the Tab key. Four accessibility checks a scanner cannot settle, and how to run each by hand in minutes.

A young test engineer turns one tablet in a long row of phones and tablets of every size, standing upright on a white bench in a bright testing room.

Between phone and desktop: the screen widths nobody checks

By Luis Gallego

2 Min Read

Responsive design testing usually means a phone and a laptop. We read our own contact page at 141 widths and found the form wider than the screen at eight.

An agency owner pins the third of three blank cards to a cork strip above her desk; the first two were redone.

Three rules our AI works under, and the mistake behind each

By Luis Gallego

2 Min Read

Three rules for working with AI that Grafica's agents follow, each traced to a dated mistake: absences, remembered limits, and commands nobody ran.

A young blind man at a library table swipes through a phone with its screen switched off, listening to it read aloud, a folded white cane beside his arm.

The accessibility deadline for public websites moved a year. The standard did not

By Luis Gallego

3 Min Read

The ADA Title II deadline for public websites moved to April 2027 and 2028. The standard stayed WCAG 2.1 AA. What it means for the firms that build them.

An agency owner briefs a project manager, who lays blank task cards in columns on a large table.

I stopped writing prompts. I brief a project manager.

By Luis Gallego

3 Min Read

How Grafica runs its work through one AI project manager: one brief per task, one project per chat, and a written memory so instructions are not retyped.

An agency owner circles a flaw on a printed proof of a web page laid out at three sizes, while a colleague watches.

AI rebuilt our blog’s front page. This is the review it did not pass

By Luis Gallego

3 Min Read

An AI-built website still needs a person's review: what AI agents missed on our own blog's front page, what changed, and five checks to run on yours.

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Does Google penalize AI-written posts? What its rule says, and what our own account shows

By Luis Gallego

3 Min Read

Google's rule is about value, not about who typed. What it says, what Search Console showed for 15 of our posts, and three questions for an AI draft.

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What Google Discover asks of a page: three checks, run on our own 15 posts

By Luis Gallego

3 Min Read

Discover requires no special tag: an indexed page, plus the large image and preview Google recommends. How 15 of our posts read on each.

A café owner in an apron, seen over the shoulder, tapping a toggle switch on a tablet that stands on a wooden counter, with an espresso machine behind.

Is your WordPress RSS feed switched off? One setting had removed ours

By Luis Gallego

3 Min Read

Our blog's feed address was redirecting to the home page. One switch in an SEO plugin had removed it. How to test yours in a minute.