The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Hazel Chapman. Call now, toll free at 1-877-927-6648. Good morning, everyone. On this Friday, the 27th of October, I wasn't sure I was going to make it. I had the flu shot on Wednesday, and I felt great yesterday. They played tennis, did very nicely. And then last night, it suddenly started to shiver. And I wasn't feeling so great, but I got everything out. And I'm here. I like to show up. Dow's down 50 at 32,738 on this Friday, the 27th of October, wrapping up the month very close to that. The S&P, I want to show you a bunch of things here. The S&P is up 11. At 41-48, it was up much more, but it's holding pretty nicely. Suspect has got a little bit of Amazon in it, so that's helping. Looking at the QQQ and the NDX100 trading vehicle, it went under the Georgia period moving average. Now it's over the daily chart, but the weekly chart did go, and we've got to wait for Friday. We've got to wait for this four o'clock close, because that pink nine-period moving average in the weekly chart, you remember, I call this the instrumental, or at least the technical instrumental, last resort, because it really takes a while, but then when it finally turns, you have to monitor it real closely, because if it stays that way, you can stay that way for quite a while. But in the meantime, back in the ranch, it held key support. In the weekly chart, the nine, as I say, just as we speak, has gone pink. The MACDs weak. Socastics at 26%. That's weak. On-balance volumes pulled back from the high. So this is just a saying. This is what I said to subscribers. Remember last Friday what I was saying is, if we get a really ugly Friday and then Sunday night, instead of trying to rally, there is a sharp move to downside. That's followed through really badly on Monday. Then we could make a really good tradeable low. But you'd also have to see the VIX index really get into the 20s. None of that happened. So that's stored. Today is the same thing. If today, the down by the end of the day is down 285 points or more, the S&P has gone from plus eight right now to maybe minus 38. And the VIX index closes the week. It's down. It's down so many cents in 1998. It did make a big deal. But do you remember the Chapman Wave methodology? This is the only instrument we look at that doesn't have the Chapman Wave notation apply. But what's really important is, I suspect, and now this just goes back with the decades that I've been doing this and the number of times I've been waiting for the real spiral to the upside and the volatility index to give us a really good low, which is what we've picked up many times before. But most importantly, this VIX at 20 is still just way too mild. So I'm suspecting that when we get any really, and I call it a tradeable low, it could be the low, it could be a low, but I mean, I'm doing about a couple of weeks of upside move. The VIX will probably have to go 23, 26, 28, and then maybe even touch 32. And then I think we're ready for some really good trading. So until that happens, we've been very careful. We've raised a lot of cash. We've got some positions. And we'll see what happens here. And we're still short from the exact high on August 1st from the Dow high. That was a nice reversal. Maybe I'll just show this to you right now. There we go. INDU at 35,679. That day we went short right at the opening, opening of the session, and we remain short. And we've had other trading positions, but key is that we remain short. Look at this arch formation. Look at the beautiful arch formation. It's a beautiful symmetry. Look at this. From this low right here to the high, from this low of 32,846, I think it was October the 4th or so, to the high that was made in the last high that was made around about the 16th, 17th, you've got the number of bars, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. What do we do? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. So it was one bar early, actually. One bar early. Not bad, huh? And I did it in my other charts. I didn't do it here, but I should have put in the inside wedge target support line. All right, we've taken that out. That means that within two sessions, because there's a daily chart, we need to see a close, and you can go through these sessions above 32,846. If it does that, it says, uh-oh, you're ready for further declines. If it saves the day, it says, you've got a balance, you can make a little h, and the h goes to a low-case m pattern. So I'm all about these patterns. I talk about them all the time. And yeah, we've got the arch formation. This is the load that we were looking at right here. This is the dowel the load that was made the week of the 26th of May at $32,000. At $32,586, the load today is... We haven't taken that out yet. $32,667, 100 points higher. We're very close, but we've done the arch formation. Remember, we were talking about archers and cups and straight lines. All right, so now I don't want to take too much time, because what I am saying is my suspicion is that until we get the kind of sell-off where you just... Yeah, they took it, it's not a great expression, but they always talk about you want to throw up, you feel so depressed.  That's when the volatility index screams higher. And that's the time period that you can start to see some kind of a really decent tradeable load. All right, with that said, let me just run this really quickly. SBX, there we go. The S&P has gone to a leg C in the weekly chart, with a nine-period moving average. And that just says, let's be careful because the whole area of 4100, that's where there was a lot of... between 4100 and 40... let's even call it 4150. There was a lot of action there, and that should be some kind of support from April. Monthly chart was doing so well. It was getting so close to the 4818, high that was made back in January. It was January, wasn't it? Yeah, January of 2022, and we went all the way up to the most recent hour, 4600, and now we're pulling back. It's a pity everything was looking so good on a monthly chart, but now the monthly chart has gone underneath the year, 40-period moving average, but the nine is still positive. That's the most important thing. Let me just do this real quickly. Q, Q, Q. The Qs are up 371, and 347, a couple of tech stocks are really helping, and that's important. So now we're above the 200-period moving average, but I'm watching this lower lows and lower highs. Just making it as simple as possible. When that changes, I'll change it. In the meantime, we could go into a rectangle formation, but it is... it's kind of stalling, right? IWM, same thing, IWM is the Russell 2000. Just looks horrible. This big rectangle that we were looking at, that goes back, let me show you this weekly chart. It goes right down. It goes back to June of 2022, to a high of 199 area, 200 area, and it's just been trapped. 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There's no cash or added costs when you join our community of traders. Sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders. Just visit the front page of TFNN.com. Toll Free at 1-877-927-6648 Internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> I must do this. First of all, the IWM, the weekly chart, it's three weeks late going to the left side right for your measured move. What happens in that case very often is that it goes underneath IWM, let's see, IWM. It goes underneath and then comes back and retests. So this 163 level, my suspicion is that we're going to go to maybe 161-159 and then have a pretty decent balance to try to get back in. That's with this particular pattern. I've got left side, right side price, time match of the week of the 9th of February and $199.26. So a question came in, actually it was yesterday and I completely forgot about it, reminding me again today. What is this with the peak 1, peak 2, or peak 3 even, or peak 4? What does it mean? So over the years what I found, especially when you're dealing with the futures, but it can be anywhere, is that sometimes, you know, in the chapter where you expect that if you go to a buy signal that's upgraded to a buy mode, meaning the technicals are strong enough and now should go not just to peak A than a B, but it can even go to a C and then your target becomes a D, the fourth highest peak. If it fails, it could fail sometimes by a penny, but all the technicals were strong enough to say, wow, it only failed because it failed because everything else said it should have hit that number. I call that a peak C1, C2, and when I say I'm trading with something like that, I will get out of some of the position right there because I'm anticipating that maybe it's not going to go to a D. I don't want to be sitting at a C saying, oh, it's got to go to a D and watch it go all the way down. I am prepared for that. Not only that, look at this. This is the 200 period exponential moving average. Look how important that is. It's been resistance all the way. A, peak B, CDEF right there, then peak A, B, C, C1, C2, C3, same sort of thing. Then the peak A, B, CDEF over the 200 period moving average and then left side, right side, beautiful price-time match goes to that and again takes it out from the 200 period moving average. Then it goes even lower to the 41, 59-ish area. Rallys and there's your peak A, peak B, C, this is the E-mini I'm talking about, one minute chart, goes to peak C, then a quarter cent low and then it retests that previous high and then it starts to fail after the 200 period moving average. So what is it? Peak C1, C2 is a phantom or a fake peak D. And I'm not embarrassed to call it a fake peak D because I just want to learn how to get these things right every time I can and as much as possible to be trading the right side. And that makes me ready. Look, when you get this turned down in the technicals right there, that says, oh, that's probably a C1, C2, and it's not going back there, but it didn't. Okay. So with that said, I've done that. Next thing I want you to do is over here. So a couple of questions that I needed to get to. So UVXY. So the other day I said, you know, I just knew I don't know what to do to give you parameters for the UVXY in terms of stuff, so anything like that. And look what happened. It just screamed somewhere over there and just rallied and I was wrong. I wasn't wrong in not giving you parameters when I wasn't sure, but I was wrong in saying that I didn't know if I was going to go up or down. I didn't know. So now we have to add a peak D in the volatility. This is UVXY. This is the approaches. There's ultra VIX short-term trading vehicle. This goes up with the VIX and down with the VIX. And the VIX is the volatility index. It's a measure of nervousness. And once again, I'm going to say to you, I'm anticipating that the VIX index is going to go higher. So when the question came in, it was, I'm looking at this as some kind of insurance policy. That's completely different. So I'm trying to think. I wish I don't have Kota or Piki is here. They had a stock that they used to own back when the market was volatile a couple of years ago and a volatile meaning going down. And I can't remember what the name of it was. It was like this. What was the name? It was kind of a bearish instrument. But it was more for the longer term. Now, some of these bearish instruments, they get calculated every day. So a bullish, if they two or three times long, this is different. So I can't remember if anybody, if you're there, maybe you'll send me a note about it. So all I'm saying is that I think it is going higher. And as I said, I think that the volatility index has been always said and done over the next. It could even be next week. If this rally just doesn't go anywhere, we could be, I've got a time and price. I've got a lot of things going on that I'm looking at. I don't like to talk about them because first of all, it's irrelevant in terms of your positions, your market positions. If you're not actually trading those things and the trading things that we have, like the short S of Hs, the short Dow, that's doing what we wanted. So I don't want to go out on a limb right now by talking about something that is kind of ephemeral. So I'm just going to say for the VIX index, and in this case you're talking about the UVXY, I would have a little bit in there. I wouldn't get too carried. It's really more an insurance policy. You can still see this going from 18 right now. If you go down to 15 and then out of the blue, it could be at 22. And that's the reason why you have it. So I would nibble right here, even though I don't know if today is exactly the day, but I would scale in on increments of one and a half points down.  And then that's it. You're done. And if you don't get it, I mean, it doesn't have a time limit. That's the best thing about it. So that's what I'm saying. But I wouldn't get carried away. It's just, as I say, part of an insurance policy. This question I had was you had mentioned for all this week, and even last week you were talking about the natural gas. Natural gas. Is this something in the natural gas that you like at this particular point? And what exactly, what do you need to see for it to actually start to become an implement of another energy source that's in demand? All right? So right now, natural gas is trading at 3.564, up 0.87. It had a really couple of good four-day sessions to the upside. More importantly, I'm going to go through the UNG, which is the instrument for my subscribers that we'd be looking at. So the UNG, which is the United States Natural Gas Fund, trading right now at 741. This is a very strong gray leg A. I should change this. It really does look gray. Gray leg A only because you made a peak D at 7.95. Oh, let me open this up so you can see what I'm talking about. See this beautiful cup formation? You see the way I've got the Chapman inside wedge target, repellent line, how it went right to the line. It went right to my plumb line that I used. Not, it wasn't below. I used a particular candle and made that the low and it went there 7.95. 808 I think was the high. 808 was the high of the 9th of August. That was our target. He missed the target. It went to a peak D and I don't like when a peak D is made underneath the previous high. I like to see a peak C go push right through their previous high and then go to a D. Something like a Chapman wave cup and ladle formation. This is more like a cup. It's not even like a cup and handle. This is like a pair of reading glasses. A half lens and you've got this cup formation here and another cup formation there. One on the left has done that a lot. But what I like is that the 9-period moving average is very close to turning up. Number one. Number two. The magpies are very close to turning up. The stochastic is rallying but it's not that strong. But it is rallying 20-period and the embattled running was up in the week in the daily chart. But that leads you to the weekly chart. I'll be back in a moment. We're actually doing a natural gas and I'll be right back. Guess this Chapman. I'll be back in a moment. Shell is down. Currencies, commodities and bond markets are as important as ever right now with how they're driving the volatility in equity markets across the globe which is why it's a great time to try out Teddy Kegstad's Tiger Forex report. Teddy Kegstad breaks down the forex markets every Monday using his 30-plus years of experience as a trading veteran of futures, forex, stocks and options. 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It went back to the buying pressure. So all I'm saying is that as I look at this we've been waiting and waiting. I've been talking about UNG forever. I see in my notes here that we had a UNG I think very briefly a year ago. A year ago as something that we were trying to get. I can't remember. I got a feeling that we had a little bit of a gain and then it pulled back and then it went out. So in this particular instance I like what I'm seeing in the dating and that leads me to the weekly and the weekly is still in the rectangle formation but for the first time I'm beginning to see a positive divergence. That's all I'm saying. If we can finally get to 768 maybe early next week, 808 will be the left side high that I would like to see. Let's go to we've got a ping ping ping and the ping ping ping says we have, we have, you have Larry on the line. Hi Larry, how are you? Hey Basil, how are you doing? Listen, I was listening to your show and I'm watching you in the market. I think there's a bottom in here and I was listening to your comments here. The only thing that I was going to ask you is it doesn't seem to me like there's much fear in the market. I mean it's going down very moderately. I mean there's no one scared or anything like that. Do you see anything out there that would really shake it up really badly? You know like maybe down to 300 points in the Dow today and the Dow somewhat Dow and Russell are just getting creamed and yet S&P and NASDAQ are holding up well. So this is you brought up some really interesting points. I mean I've talked about them over the weekend. What I've been saying is that the Dow finally had some really good earnings reports in the really horrible laggards. You're talking about triple M. There were RTX. They were just actually in the Dow. They wouldn't be RT but it would be Microsoft which had a really good rally.  IBM just had it. So I'm beginning to see something in the Dow that says to me there's a rotation and now what you're seeing is some of the stocks that were some of the best are taking a breather. You saw that in the NASDAQ because some of the stocks that were really fantastic have been clobbered over the last week. So as I see it and we've been talking about this for some time is that I don't see the crash scenario. What I see is just a very determined drive you nuts lower highs and lower lows. There are three markers as far as I'm concerned. There's time, there's price or there's time and price. We haven't got time and price yet. We've got more time and basically I mean we've taken all this time but when you think about the semiconductor has made an all-time high fairly recently. We were fortunate to short two points off the all-time high and still remain in their position but most of the other indices have not. The Dow has gone back to its January high, the S&P hasn't gone back to the January high. So this is like a huge consolidation and it's a reconfiguration as I see it. So I'm not looking at this crash scenario. I don't see it. I see it as whittling away, improving in some areas and not improving in other areas. So the way I'm looking at it time-wise next week will be the test because if today like the Dow's down 116 which you've got the S&P up 5.  The VIX index has to get into the high 20s as far as I'm concerned before we make a really decent load. So I kind of agree with you but it's a real mixed market and it's rotating through the different areas repairing some and taking down some that have had really good gains. Yeah that's what I was saying really. That's what I was checking in. I can't do the show today because my son-in-law is speaking at the University Medical Center here. He's a specialist in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and I think he wants to use me as a kidney pig. You know I have to tell you. We're excited to listen to him speak. It's very real honor for him to do that. He's a really smart kid. Anyway listen I'll come to you soon and thanks again and take care. Thank you Larry. Great information to Basel.  We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. So folks Larry just spoke about Parkinson's. I can't tell you how many people I know that have Parkinson's and they're not all old. They're in middle age. They could be older. It's just pervasive and cancer we have out of our closest 10 friends I think seven have some form of cancer. I mean I don't know what it is. Let's get back to our story that we're looking at. Yes I was talking about the U and G. So just to finish up this rectangle can last a lot longer than your patients. That's number one and number two I am seeing improvement but you're talking about an instrument that has been hammered from 35 and the continuous contract down to the fives. Something's wrong. I mean something is absolutely wrong but I'm looking at it and saying there's a chance that at this particular time I think this is a rally that might have legs but you won't know it until it really starts to trade in the eights and right now it's at 7.3. So I hope to answer that question about the U and G. Maybe I took a little bit too much time. The next thing I want to look at is let me just go through this here. So IBRX the question came in. I think we were looking at it yesterday. Have I done IBRX? Oh look at that. Wow. So it's gone to a leg C. It's trading at 232 up 28 cents up 13 percent. That's not a big deal.  It is 273. That's 40 cents high. So that must have been 33 percent. Whatever it is it was a fantastic game. Give it a little bit back and there's your leg C. So in the Dan Dan yes it's doing remember I spoke about the Chapman Wave inverted Roman candle I said right here if it can last for most of the next 35 minutes I said during my show and above 198 I think I said there's a really good chance that either today or tomorrow that was yesterday or today it would test and maybe even break the high of the left side which is 222 and remember I said I had a mailbox T22 and here it is. Very nice action but it is a biotech and biotechs can give back just as quickly as they give. So I hope you I'm sure you did. I'm sure you took some profits on the way up there. Fabulous action. Okay next question is let me just go through this again because I think it's really important. I made notes here on what look when you got WM this is a stock that I've spoken about for decades and I keep saying I want subscribers to have it I want subscribers to have it and we never get it because it does it has these quick moves and you don't know what to do and then it pulls back and a quick move and this is waste management trading up 29 sets at 163.11 It's in a peak C in the daily chart. The weekly chart had a very good spike and my question is why would waste management which is so sensitive to the economy be up here why would Sintas this is uniforms overalls rentals be so close to an all-time high that's what I mean when I say to layer some bifurcated market I'll be back. The gold report as a precious metal gold is still king it continues to hold the most effective safe haven and hedging properties across the global major trading hubs of the London OTC market the US futures market and the Shanghai gold exchange. 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Let's go to this load one o'clock this morning That was yesterday one o'clock yesterday with your four o'clock.  The nine cross positive You went to, you remember the Chapman way to try to identify the low slow bar Then really count each successively higher peak If you can get a bicycle that can go to an upgraded to a buy mode It should go to at least four peaks higher. That's peak A, peak B is higher Peak C is the highest. Remember floating let it becomes a peak Then D is the fourth highest peak.  Hold steady Technicals will start firming up and then it goes peak A, B, C, D This is the ten minute E-mini chart. Actually this is the ten minute Continuous contract which is at exactly the same price I've never seen this before. I had a problem at 8 30 this morning With the my E-mini December one. So I just jumped in this right away So I redid the notation. So here it goes So it's a brand new peak A, B, C, D pulls back Nine is holding beautifully. Look at this. If you were in over there You're still in goes to peak A, B And then it goes to peak C1. That was a C But there we made it a C2 because it was exactly the same high And then it even went to a C3 at exactly the same high Now I've found over the years that if it goes to a C2 and a C3 And even a C4, be prepared that you could have a sudden Push to the upside and that could still go to the D What it did then. Look it didn't take out the left side low So this is still an active peak C. Then it goes to a D Doji candle. I love doji candles at highs or lows Watching it closely and then it breaks down and goes to Pink. And it comes down and goes to peak A, B Minus in the arch formation. I drew this in a long time ago And my target was, if it was going to pull back You never know. You're just going to do your homework and then you'll see what happens 4166.25 by noon today And what do we got? We caught it to 11. We still got a lot of hours to go A lot of hours. A lot of 10-minute charts to go And we're at 10.51 right now. 50. Right? So that's what I did. And how did I do it? There's a beautiful arch formation. Look at that. That's like the bowl formation. Remember I was talking about Back in 2000 I think it was the XAU, the gold Golden silver, Philadelphia golden silver index Head, I think it was 44 or 45. It made this The gold it made this unbelievable upside down A bowl formation like a deep dish pizza Which I don't particularly like. I like the thin crust And then what happened is it broke out of a multi-year Base and it just went one-to-one to the upside from that sideways move So this is what I'm looking at for the potential to the downside If this breaks and it starts to trade Anytime after I'd say one-to-one thirty It doesn't have to. I'm just saying because right here it went right to the channel And we've inside wedge pink dash target support line So these are techniques that I use all the time And I'm also going to say send me a note I keep getting asked about doing another one of those all-day webinars Where I talk about all these patterns as they're going along We have no idea what's going to happen But we follow them and we have our dictionary Of all these different techniques And as they unfold we use them So if you're interested in that I'll have to consider it at some point It's just something I love doing But it takes quite a bit of work to be able to do that That would be an all-day. I'm talking about all these different patterns So this is the inside wedge, held the support, let's see what happens here And what I'm saying is the nine is still weak in the ten-minute chart But look we've got the on balance volume ready for a bit of a bounce That's the only technical tool that I use as oversold or overbought Right here it gave you the exact height, look at this, right there No I'm sorry it wasn't the exact height, it was one bar early It was one bar late, sorry But it can give you the exact turnaround That's one of the things that gave us the exact height August the first on the down So okay I thought I wanted to do some of these things just to show you Technical Friday, now we want to run through as many stocks as we can If I can ever get this A little mouse, okay there you are There we go, so what we're looking at here is I said I would do all these big sevens, there we go, Amazon Now let's go to Apple, Apple is trading down It's got the beautiful arch formation I thought I had notated this, I should have Look here's the plum line, what's the plum line? It's where you think you're going to go in an arch formation And take exactly the same number of bars on the left To get to that same level on the low On the right, so what do we do? There's your plum line, there's your bar This is the easy one, what's difficult is the technique that I've developed Where you've got to use a moving plum line Where do you find that, those are the techniques you want to learn This is easy, I mean visually look at this It didn't miss it, it got it by the exact day Number of bars up, number of bars down in an arch formation This goes green, green because you always want to show what's going up It's green, there it is And where's the chamois inside, wedge target, support line Yeah, this one would have been difficult, I would have had to fake it There wasn't a new high over there So I would have said if I take it from there, that would be right But I like to take it from a peak when you're coming down And from a trough when you're going up But look what's happened, Apple has got arch formation Dreaded H, what's the dreaded H? Dreaded H is When it comes down a straight line, tries to Straight line, I don't want to do your mind, use a letter Come down a straight line, tries to balance Fails at a peak A or a B And then takes out the left side low That's a dreaded H because it can go one to one to the downside Well there's your A minus because it failed There's your A minus because it failed And that's just saying Apple is not very strong right now It is trying to find a base Okay, that's Apple, so where would I find a base? I'd say the 163 to 161 area is going to be really important If we don't make some kind of a tradeable low in the next few days Which my time sequence is telling me is a possibility But I'm not going to go there until I have more evidence And I have to wait for Friday's close If I'm looking at weekly charts And there is your inside track propellant The propellant zone right there So will Apple use that to rally? We don't know But it's not looking very good right now All the technicals are already quite poor Now let's go to Amazon, Amazon right here Fabulous move up, oh and it's increased Now that's really what you want to see So what do we have here, we have the channel We're falling axe formation You see these highs right here? Look at that, beautiful, how could you even How did these things happen? It just amazes us when we do technical analysis The symmetry and the things that happen over and over So if it breaks above that next week And starts to close in the 132 to 131 area That's going to be really positive For Amazon on a short-term basis If it starts to stall and that stall says Oops, right now there's a green January of Roman candle If at any point in the next It's a weekly chart so I'm going to say in the next two weeks If there is an inter-day move For, I'm going to make it a long time But for two hours below 122 It'll retest the low that was made And that low was yesterday In 190 So that's Amazon The right guy's acting very well This is the savior for the market Because 90 and moving average Hasn't crossed negative in the weekly chart So as we go out I want you to look at GE Just it's not one of the seven But it's pretty important stuff We're going to give that Wow, I'll be back You might think that if you want to be successful At trading in the stock market You're going to need a crystal ball After all, it's impossible to predict the future, right? 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I didn't finish So Netflix, NFLX There we go, Netflix Holding very nicely Big gap up Holding the gap One of these things We've just decimated it On the way down And then had a really good rally How they hold over the next week Is it going to be so important Netflix is going to happen Netflix there Oh, Meta Meta is trading right now It's got a It had a Channel Wave Roman candle yesterday Look at that Beautiful Roman candle And today's the day Now the rule of this is If it went to the WIC Halfway into the WIC For a shorter period A shorter time frame There's a real A whole hell there Got to be careful Because it can easily test The left side low In this case If it can close above The high of yesterday For two out of three sessions It says You can go quite a bit higher And we're going to be watching That's the Meta up Seven right now So with that said Through the session Even though I was feeling a little Flu-ish After taking the shot To stop the flu So what can I say Have a wonderful rest of the weekend And check out my opening call My daily newsletter And thank you Just thank you Thank you


Good afternoon, hello. How are you? All right. So I'm going to do something that I always thought I would do. I promise myself I'm going to do this, but I'm going to start with a quote. I always hate when people do that, but here we are. Thomas Jefferson said that it was a duty for all of us to be a participator in the government of affairs. And he said the way we could do that was to create a way to spread it. And I'm going to talk about the future of knowledge, a public education system. In fact, I went to visit his grave two years ago, the faculty of the President of the United States, he's not on his tube stone. The fact that he created the University of Virginia is on his tube stone. It was important to him, it was important to that generation, and it should be important to us. So to be said that the primary debates that we're seeing on CNN and Fox News are discussing actual issues. And he said that they discussed public education. They're not talking about public education as a way to build the citizenry necessary to engage a robust public debate. They're talking about public education as a way to develop our workforce. And workforce development is an important component of our public education system. It's an increasingly digital, increasingly low-mised world, and we need that. But we also need to remember that the only way that a democratic society can govern itself is if people are informal and engaged. That's why I'm glad UCSA created the Center for Civic Engagement. That's why I'm glad we're having this time. So we can talk about all the different ways that we can improve participation in our democracy. So speaking of public education, I'm thinking back to my high school days when I was preparing for this talk and I was a high-level education. I remember we talked about learning things in politics in one or two ways. The second way was a teacher would go to one student and say, you're pro-government control. The teacher would go to the other student and say, you're anti-government control. Please, you can try to debate and discuss. You know, that was a perfect. The second way was come up and decide, again, it's very direct for me, and come out and decide what the constitution is for me. I think that we can all agree that that is a fundamental failure when it comes to Jefferson's vision. And what we need, I don't know, is schools for engaging in the kind of debates that we're trying to engage on. These aren't like topics. Nuclear fuel involved. Collective argument in the city. How are we going to fund our public education system in Texas? Criminal justice reform. It goes a little bit further than presiding the free and multi-constitution. And then students graduate from high school and they come to places like UTSA, they do a lot of education, and they graduate from places like UTSA. So they see a series of institutional papers. They see Enron, they see 9-11, they see a financial process. They're drowning the student debt with a limited job process, right? To what to engage in a society that's institutions fail to do, that has promised you something that is not deliberate. This is a real problem, as far as I'm concerned. I think we all recognize it's a problem throughout the year. There's a kind of thing across a couple of years ago. He's a fellow at Harvard University in the fellow National Constitution Center. And he says that the best way to give people to engage in public debate is not making a list of pronouns. It's not a CPI definition of some arcane passage. It's people coming together and having a conversation in a civil way about the issues we face. His name's Christopher Phillips and he created an entity called Democracy Cafe. Democracy Cafe is an entity that I've had the pleasure of serving the board on for quite some time. Dr. Phillips goes around all the country and he hosts these seminars, and he brings people in little roundtable discussions about current events, about constitutional issues, and about philosophical issues. And it's not about winning the debate. It's not about scoring points. It's about exploration. It's about discovery. So I thought that was a pretty fascinating idea. I mean, we all have witnessed this hyper-partisan media culture that has defined our lives. It incentivizes offensive comments about menstrual cycles and disincentivizes any kind of substantive debate at all. But I think everybody in this room is probably interested in that. But I think it starts to ground up. It starts at a public education level. So there's a woman who kind of recognizes herself. Intuitively, she works in curriculum instruction in the school district. Now I don't know how many of you live in Bear County or San Antonio, but East Central Independent School District is on the east of their county. It's very rural, lower socioeconomic status. They don't have the best college attendance rates and aren't the best SAP sports. They don't have the best SAP sports. They would not be traditionally viewed as a model school district for Bear County. But I think they should be. Patty Reyes, like I said, she started Constitution Cafe at East Central High School. And it's eight people at a table with a facilitator. So you imagine this room and a facilitator like me up here, around tables, eight people at each table. Each table has several adults and several students discussing in ground table format constitutional issues as equals. So these issues they're discussing are first amendment issues like can you wear a light-hearted band and protect the war? Can you give as much money as you want to a political candidate? They're discussing the Patient Protection in the Fourth World Care Act. It's such a complex issue. When I sat in on one, they discussed it and they actually had pretty good insights. They're discussing privacy and social media. They're discussing these issues in a way that is compelling, that matters, and that's why they're discussing the law service discourse. So they started having these Constitution cafes at East Central High School and a few dozen students would show up at a little before school. There was a kind of students who would kind of imagine to show up on these things. The kids that are going to go to UT, the kids that are going to go to UTSA, the kids that are going to do well. But then it grew. And the demand grew. Roland Tostado was a superintendent, Shayna Cates of Prince Walney Central. They decided to incorporate this Constitution cafe into their school day. So you have these Constitution cafes now about once a month. You have a waiting list. Hundreds of students hungry to talk about current events. And when you think about that, that's pretty amazing because when you think about high school kids these days, you think about Kim Kardashian and you think about things like Kim Kardashian, right? But they want to talk about privacy and social media. They want to talk about the first amendment. They want to talk about the equal pressure clause. They want to talk about all these things. They want to be asked. They don't want to be told. And they want to have a conversation. They don't want to have a debate. 400 students at the last one. And now they included the culinary program there. The culinary program catered for both things. They incorporated the audio-visual students who put on audio-visual stuff. And they got to be thinking about a lot of things. The first of which is is there a long-term effect of this on these students? I mean kind of intuitively here, if it's right, you would think. Or it turns out that the students who have participated thus far and have graduated have higher SAT scores. They're more likely to go to college and they're more likely to meet whatever college readiness standard there is. My boss who some of you I think heard speak today, worked at the NMR Public Policy Center for almost ten years. And this is what he studied. He studied engagement in schools. And he found through quantitative studies that students were engaged for two semesters in this way. Or a way like this. Have higher end voters who are now four years out have even higher end voters who are now eight years out. So it's long-term consequences for civic engagement. Now voters who are now this great are all four now. But what Patty said, I called her this morning and told her I was going to be giving her a little shout out here, what Patty said was it's not just that they're voting. It's that they're not reciting the Fox News or the MSNBC talking points anymore. They think critically about what they're told. And I know some people here are educators at the TSA, I am. And I know that's a problem with our students. They're not thinking critically about anything. They're debating about current issues in a meaningful way in our public schools. And I think that this model of conversation can help us achieve that. And that's pretty much what I have as far as preparing remarks though I'm more of a group discussion kind of guy clearly. So if anybody wants to get to that. So what type of material is made available to them to then prepare for these discussions? So what type of material is made available? It's actually not as much as you would think. What I've seen is usually a couple of articles about an issue from a publication like The Washington Journal or The New York Times and you'll see sort of a fact-based sort of objective reporting and you'll see a couple of opinion pieces. So they're sort of familiar with the facts just the facts and they're familiar with sort of the spin on both sides of what they're walking.  Thank you. That's really interesting. How much do they or do you think maybe they could in the future bring the discussion into their own neighborhood and their part of the city? Because I think that's really interesting too. So I guess it could be in two ways that say that if they're talking about the first that they think about how that might play out in terms of like you said like what they can do in their own neighborhood or their own school but so there's that part of it do they bring that to understanding of their immediate context but then also would there be a way to expand this model so you could think a little bit more about city politics and maybe you can get kids interested in the pipeline where they could be on board of information to rent our office at a fairly young age. I think that's the question is how to expand the scope of this so I would say to think that's the hope as far as I'm concerned that students will graduate from high school with an education like this and they'll come to UTSA and do that here and they'll go out in their communities and engage in this discourse in their neighborhood associations. That's the hope. Sort of the full side of that is constitution and democracy that they were not in public schools and that's sort of the fascinating thing to me about it because you go to a coffee shop or a public library in Oakland or Milwaukee or Newark and you probably find a group of people talking about this stuff on Friday night so the answer is people are doing this in their communities yes and we want these students to take that out of their communities and then we should probably design it in such a way where they're more empowered to do so So that's the hope. I hope that answers your question. Next. The pre-K for SA was a successful initiative. I can remember a couple of times during the debate the previous student winning the election they were asked about public school education and most of the panel said the candidates said that's out of our control and we can't do anything and that was at the state level but they got pre-K for SA which is a huge thing especially for the underserved populations and even the most and I'm happy to be sharing this with you Central but how can locals make it happen at the state level at the public school level without going through the state system and they don't have to be a magnet student. That's a good question. So how many times have I heard politicians say this issue is not my jurisdiction you know I heard I really do and it's sad. I'm going to plug my boss a little bit to answer your question so he started an initiative called the kids town hall so he goes into a school a middle school or a richer school and he goes into town hall meetings where you have a bunch of kids sitting across the lane on the floor and they're all really unconscious so I want to talk about Garcia Middle School which is a district 8 school so the student said we have this problem with crosswalks and sidewalks in our right and he said you know what we can do let's talk about transportation you know what happened in six months sidewalks were fixed so I would say listen with you engaged you're going to get what you want back I think that as far as the jurisdiction go I'm sure the city does not fund the public schools right it doesn't have the authority to deal with public schools but you can do little things on the margins like that and have a profound impact on our public schools and teach students lessons in a sort of indirect way that's really meaningful and impactful to their lives in my opinion I hope that answers your question can you give to the city council to answer that too following up on that actually because I'm in this district I have someone in a elementary school elementary and then also someone next door at Clark High School I want to church else the way that I would could council council person to conduct like a training perhaps with a population in the community that would be able to approach schools and go in and do a half a similar conversation because he's one person how can he that's a great idea and I don't want to make him do anything especially on camera but I think he would be very interested in that idea so let's connect after this and we can talk about it anybody else yes I guess that's okay oh it's okay I was just curious do some of the kids emerge more in the years in these discussions than we have yeah so we have several kinds of students in these states and that's what we're going to do to watch you have the kid who's already running for president he or she is 15 years old they have an RGC and they've read Alex Smith and John Block and they're ready to go and then you have the kids who aren't running for president right now every kind student there but the way it's done is in such a respectful way that you listen to the kid and then you listen to the kid who you've never thought about this because she wasn't alive and you can learn from both yes you have different kinds of students that participate and different kind of people in the democracy campaign and the constitution campaigns are adults all different educational backgrounds yes Sam so what's the role of the organization is it to crack numbers right and I should go on to more of them when I turn to Mark so sorry so you have a pillar campaign coming up I'm going to introduce a comment so I want to say as a pillar here I would say Citizens United versus the Federal Election Commission these are the issues having to do with money and speech and political campaigns do corporations have the right to write checks in support of candidates and then you have several round tables you know many people at each round table and round tables with facilitators on the discussions for 30, 45 minutes then you report out to a big group so if anybody can say to a big group they can kind of say their piece that the real conversation happens among the same people diversified people and are teachers facilitating taking studies? they're kind of self-assilitated where the ones I went to adults have been very careful not to try and drive the train of the conversation so if you want to see the incredibly of the girls talking about cities everything in the White House where people recycle their questions I'm sorry but one of my skills I forgot to plug the SES you have to be incredibly bored with this I'm involved in the Northeast Independent School District I graduated from the school as I'm involved in their bond to oversight committee I'm working on behalf of their bond but I'm very troubled by the way they handle a certain situation I want to juxtapose what East Central is doing in terms of fostering debate encouraging dissent almost in a very healthy way to what Northeast did and I know that Charles Lambiel's passion about this we already know the formal shooting of the churches several months ago the Confederate flag kind of debate popped up again now we live in Texas there are several Confederate symbols here including Robert E. Lee High School in Northeast Independent School District and another woman who is currently a student of Robert E. Lee High School which got rid of the Confederate flag in 1991 so good for them on that you've got a hundred signatures from the petition to change the name Robert E. Lee High School and the district said we're not going to have that discussion here here what are they teaching this student what are they teaching this student to sign the petition why would you if you were gay to your 17 years old you're told no sorry we're not going to let you challenge the power structure at all you won't have to change the name I feel like the people have an exception I feel like it's a powerful juxtaposition on this border of the ISD I don't think Robert E. Lee High School should be saying that they need to have competition as far as I'm concerned anybody else Kate well so my mom actually creates for people to sign ISD but no I guess to me is more of a mindset rather than a prescribed curriculum it's a mindset of we need people having conversations and we need to encourage exploration I don't really support personally a curriculum but I do support a curriculum that first person thinks I don't completely disagree with you but there is a program called ISD that's the other that's all school districts are on anybody else short and sweet I guess thank you all for coming yes Michelle I was just curious about something I just wanted to know your thoughts on do you think that technology has contributed to the little border turnouts here do you think we need to go back to traditional ways you know what you're talking about seems something that a lot of people can view and implement in schools do you think we'll align too much on technology and social media and digital marketing to try to get people to encourage them to go out and go meet I would say that digital communication is a double-edged sword because it definitely accelerates this trend toward 140 character solidites you can't discuss the Iran nuclear deal in 140 characters if you can you're smarter than everybody ever did and that digital can be a great tool to communicate to people hey look there's a bond that's great but I think that it does have the effect of sometimes distilling complex issues into 140 character solidites first of all and second of all creates sort of an echo chamber where you only follow people that you agree with and there's this confirmation bias which means that you only really agree you only really accept people that you agree with and tweet and stuff I would say that social media is a double-edged sword and the final analysis is a good thing and I should say that the essential they do engage on social media with the students who aren't there so they can practice making a conversation so it can be utilized absolutely but it can't be in my view they're replacing it because there's nothing in this world that meets face-to-face conversation in my view thank you for saying that you're welcome again I was just looking at the time as I noticed you had more time for me can you tell us generally your thoughts about that and how the city has contributed or helped toward relieving that crisis well I know that a very good person came in here today and advocated for changing the election date from May which there's been some debate about even since then it's tough it's really tough I know that in our office we'll be able to go out with the community and do a block walk even at houses that aren't voters and we'll try to get them to engage with us but we're undergoing this essay tomorrow it's a comprehensive plan that Mayor Taylor announced where we're trying to align all of our policies including water, transportation, sustainability, everything and a big component of the successful comprehensive plan is engagement and we're out there begging people to engage and they aren't they have to meet a pathway that people have to meet there's only so much to do but you do need to take every correct measure you can to remove barriers so the civic engagement crisis in San Antonio and my view is we don't have enough people applying to boards and commissions wherever it is I don't think in our time financial disclosures whatever it is UTSA student body president and Billy Allen's office my boss appointed her to the ethics review board and said we want a 22 year old making decisions about ethics policy in San Antonio we need the council members to do that we need more willing people willing to step up so we can get to the crisis in San Antonio in my view and I learned from an advocate that was a lot more than that it's about people really thinking about this rich pipeline we collected bargaining agreement in an equal way it's about people signing up for boards and commissions it's about people who don't have a financial interest in issues speaking about issues because I'll tell you the only people I hear from people who have a financial interest in it and then there's like Dr. Romero is great because she doesn't have a financial interest in anything but she's thoughtful about it and she doesn't want people like that so the city of New York crisis is not just quantitative it's also qualitative and we're trying to and a lot of politicians are listening and a lot of politicians are listening to people they create a misunderstanding they create a misunderstanding to even speak up but as you said like the student probably in high school probably fell for it to some degree I don't know or I don't know how she fell for it by the way I felt like the world I am there's no I know a lot of people kill that way of interacting with the government there are just simple things we can do more news on social more newsletters going out in communities more but it's very very critical so we're trying to I'm very full of the question of where you're down and you're in a deferred site market and on camera it's what we understand do you have an opinion about a strong city manager versus a strong lawyer I think she's giving us a a triple of longer than seven years in a row and that's all I'll say it's her let me get back to the discussion of social media because it's a great point so traveling a lot listening to intelligence-query debates and there one of the folks who are making the case that through social media we have what's called an illusion of freedom whereas through social media though our efforts are good intention they never actually serve as a catalyst for the change that we want to see so is that a problem in social media that you see TJ where folks who can lambast their value criticize their public policy but that's to the extent in which it goes where it'll suddenly stop and no change is ever seen and furthermore on that note how do you think the city of San Antonio should approach that issue Councilman Aaron Burr had shared that the Essays Tomorrow Plan although it is a plan perhaps maybe it could be something more more of a platform for initiating change, encouraging civic engagement to make sure that Essays Tomorrow is always the tomorrow that we chase and never something that just stops so the question is the question is how do we correct the social media I guess issue where folks engage in social media discuss and then it stops there and the policy or the civic engagement component doesn't actually come to fruition in quote-unquote real-world well I feel like it's simple engaging the tool and tool box in these media the tool and tool box needs to be used such so there are people that go and speak in person at every city council meeting I'm sure you know who they are I'm sure anybody who's been to one of these meetings knows who they are and they're responding seriously they're trolls, that's what they are they're like, you have trolls on social media too serious people at Goodwill can't make a change there are enough of them that dance together to do so and they can do it for a Leatherite campaign they can do it for showing out about somebody's door they can do it for social media and what I've found because I've been to social media accounts to my boss is that there are people at Goodwill and people at Goodwill are people that get things done so my basic point is good hearted people who are thinking about the issues and an open minded way of that change no matter what their tool is in my experience but I mean being the soul of it and everything is that I have finished so thank you for your convincing


A strange thing that narcissists do. This is something that can be very confusing. It can be very hard to understand. When you see that the narcissist has moved on to another situation, because it makes you wonder what was so bad about your relationship and what is so good about this new situation that they are now in. There may have been some things they complained about with you, but now they're tolerating those same things with this new person, or they're doing things with them that they never wanted to do with you. You strive to reach your goals through effort and determination. You worked hard. You approached things with all of your effort. You were in control. You had your life together. But this new person isn't on your level, so it seems very strange. It doesn't make any sense to you, because they said that you weren't good enough. But look at what they're involved in now, they're in a worse situation. But the reason for this is because you overcompensated. You took excessive measures in attempting to correct and make amends for the areas of weaknesses. You invested in something that was not of the same amount of value as you are. They talked the talk, but they didn't walk the walk. They spoke convincingly in a way to please and impress you, in a way that appeared to be true and real. They said they were going to do things, but they never did what they promised. They never walked the walk, and this new situation is no different. They're not acting in a way that agrees with the things they say, because they're not of the same quality as you are. People will gravitate towards like-minded people. They will seek out and hang around other people they perceive as comparable to themselves. Birds of a feather flock together, so they will gravitate back to those same types of people, but they got in with you because they pretended to be on your level, or you made an exception for them, because you overlook the people that they associate with, as it says in a Russian proverb.  Motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously said that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. The people who they choose to spend time with should reveal to you who they are. It should reveal to you their likes and interests, their values and principles, but they will tell you that they like the same things as you do.  Because if they were really about that, they would never reduce themselves to a lower level or position, they would never settle for less, but they're not really downgrading, they're just seeking their own level. When they were with you, they lied about their qualities and skills, they pretended to share the same likes and interests, like they knew how to maintain a relationship with you, but then they started falling behind. They were ineffective, because they were not qualified for the position of being with you, so it was too much for them to manage, it became an inconvenience, they liked the benefits that came along with it, but they weren't up to the mark, they weren't good enough for it, so they decided to not participate in it, which is why when you meet someone new, you need to judge their performance, otherwise you will end up with these types of people, who are not what they started out to be, who are not doing what they were doing before, they're not as productive or effective, they skillfully and dishonestly position themselves in your life, and that is why they eventually ended up going down to a lower level until they ended up ghosting you. Because they knew that things were about to fall apart, if they were expected to have any responsibility, so they decided to go somewhere where less was expected of them, somewhere where there were less requirements, where less is needed of them, where there is lower standards, where less is expected than what you expected from them, and that is why they ended up with someone who is not as good as you expected, someone who is of a lower standard, because they went down to a level that they can deal with without difficulty, a level that they can control, because while you may have been a more important and powerful person who could give them what they want, it was a difficult situation for them, it was beyond their ability, they wanted the benefits that came along with it, but they weren't good enough for it, they weren't as good as you expected and wanted, they weren't qualified for the position of being with you, so they removed themselves, which is actually saving you time, energy and money, but you may be trying to keep them on your level, you may be trying to prevent them from falling, because you believe that there is something good about them, maybe you remember how they talk the talk, so you are expecting them to follow it up with action, because you haven't accepted that it was all fake, but if you want to remain self-sufficient and free from difficulties, you need to have the effectiveness of productive effort, if they are lacking in performance and productivity, there's going to be problems, it's going to affect you, so you have to let them go, they are only going to weigh you down, they are only going to oppress you, they are going to keep you in subjection and hardship, they are going to cause anxiety and distress to you, and they are going to hinder your progress, so while this may be a strange thing that narcissists do, you need to recognise how it is actually very beneficial for you, thank you for watching, I hope this video wears in it with you, please like, comment, share and subscribe, if you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the description, thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Hey welcome to The Journey. Today we're talking about getting WordPress accessibility right every time. My name is Heather Luckin-Pribich. Never have to worry about needing to have a website be accessible while we browse.  But you'd be amazed at the vast array of hurdles that some users have to take to just browse an everyday website. And as a website designer or developer it's imperative that you create a website that's accessible to all. And when you consider WordPress websites make up 37% of the net it makes sense to be mindful of that build. So what is WordPress accessibility and why is it so important? And as we mentioned WordPress accessibility is really about creating a website and or just a platform that everyone can use. The more people that can use your website the more accessible it is. And again as a designer or developer if you're building these websites for clients this needs to be at the forefront of your design thinking and just the websites that you create. So by creating an accessible site you're gonna do a few things. You're going to make the site more user friendly so the user experience of building trust and loyalty you will also avoid some fines and lawsuits and in addition to that you're going to better optimize your site for Google listings. That being said there's a lot more that goes into creating a website than just being compliant. Before we dig into this any further it's worth noting that there's a couple different aspects when it comes to usability that play an equally important role to making a website accessible. So there's the accessibility of a website theme i.e. how it looks and then there's the plugins and custom coding or really what the site does. And to offer your visitors a truly accessible experience it's worth noting that you'll need to make sure both of these in the forefront when you're developing your website for usability and accessibility. So let's get into the types of accessibility. You got auditory, motor, cognitive and visual impairments. So it's predicted that about 15% of the world's population so that's like 1 billion people live with a disability. So by making websites more accessible you're able to reach a larger audience. Another type of accessibility is economic status. And many people around the world don't have the latest and greatest smartphone that can run 4G networks or the latest browser operating system. So you want to make sure that the websites that you create are backwards compatible with some of the older generations of phones, computers, laptops, all of the like and also the browsers themselves like internet explorer. Also when thinking about types of accessibility you'll want to make sure that it can operate on multiple devices. And these days WordPress themes are responsive from the get go so shouldn't be a problem but it's definitely worth an audit. And like we said website elements need to be accessible and if you've never considered WordPress accessibility before it might feel a little overwhelming but there's a core set of features that you want to really keep top of mind when you're developing these websites and let's really jump through each of these pieces and make it a little less overwhelming. The first one is just images and alt text. So the visually impaired can't necessarily see the images on your website so they rely on the alternative tags that really describe what that image is about. If you've been in WordPress and you've uploaded an image before you'll see that box the alt text and if you're leaving it blank you're not making your website accessible. And really you just want to describe what the image is about. Most the time the title will do a good enough job but if it's a picture of a man playing the saxophone say man playing saxophones they can really start to visualize what that image might look like. So let's talk about acronyms. I know screen readers can struggle with these so you'll want to use any subtext to avoid any incorrect interpretations. For example SEO search engine optimization might be interpreted as SEO. So again add any subtext to avoid that miscommunication. Yeah and continue the conversation with those screen readers. Contact forms are a big issue for those screen readers which is why I particularly recommend keeping the label so the text above the actual input field versus just inside as the placeholder text. It helps the person understand first name is why I have to put my first name last name last name and if that's not there some screen readers have difficulty understanding what those fields are which doesn't create an accessible experience for them. Also when thinking about accessibility think about your links. If the text of the hyperlink is click here where what's happening give me more description there. So for example if it said click here for your free ebook I know when I'm going to in fact click on that link I know what's gonna happen. There's no mystery there. The last part we want to talk about has to do with fonts. So unusual fonts might look good but those fancy fonts are really challenging for these visually impaired users or screen readers. So it's usually best to go with simple fonts such as OpenSan, Oswald or even Poppins my personal favorite and avoid those cursive wacky fonts and not necessarily with this category avoid comic sans but make sure your font is easy and clear to understand and read. So now the really fun part we're going to talk about legality in section 508 with regards to the accessibility guidelines and this is important to reflect on because we talked about breaking laws earlier not breaking laws and we're also talking about including all consumers in that user experience so it is important to get into the legality portion here and I have an example of this Beyonce's company specifically Beyonce.com became a defendant in a class action lawsuit because the site was not accommodating to the visually impaired that is leaving out two million people with vision impairments and so therefore they're unable to get the news or into the portal of news of all things yonsei and hey if you're unsure how accessible your website might be there's a free solution you can go to ace accessibility checker find out let's talk about the human and seo benefits for wordpress accessibility and now it's easy to become cynical when you think of web accessibility as just another hoop to kind of jump through to enhance your website's seo however at the the heart of website accessibility strategy in seo is all about providing your end users the best possible experience that they can have with your website catering to specialized needs is not just an act of generosity it's also good for your client's bottom line and by doing this you're really showing and leading the example that your web design their development or management company is all about impacting the world in a positive way accessible content is more than just seo it's about leveling the playing field for all users so for those living with disabilities internet shopping could be the easiest way for them to interact with your brand so as you go to make your site more accessible think about the general usability of the site and with that you know you're going to improve the overall customer experience a couple ways to do that simplifying overly complicated code also creating a clean and easy navigation tool and then don't forget to add the alt text to those images and hey while we're on the topic of seo not only are these adjustments really crucial for the overall accessibility of your WordPress site it's also a great opportunity to potentially boost higher in a search end your rankings by adding a couple extra keywords so are you ready to start getting your WordPress accessibility right for your clients and hey let's be honest it's not going to be a walk in the park especially when you consider the incredible freedom that WordPress gives you by allowing you to download whatever plugins and themes that you want to put on the website not to mention the sheer breadth of coding that you can write to make the site your own although a bit of effort is going to go into this to ensure that your site is in fact accessible to everyone regardless of their disability their device their economic status i can guarantee it'll be worth it now i hope this helps you make your clients WordPress sites that much more accessible because when it's accessible we all win if you've gotten any value out of this video make sure you give us a like and drop us a comment below also be sure to subscribe so you know what our next video is out this is a journey