Growing accessibility in our WordPress community, developing accessibility-first WordPress themes, and accessibility of common Gutenberg blocks are among the topics for WordPress Accessibility Day 2022.
The online WordPress Accessibility Day 2022 is a 24-hour free global event on November 2-3, 2022, open to everyone.
Bringing together folks around the world, the virtual event focuses on helping WordPress content creators, designers, developers, and users understand how to create and build accessible WordPress websites.
You’ll find experienced accessibility consultants as well as WordPress designers, developers, and user speaking, including:
- Graham Armfield, web accessibility consultant from Coolfields Consulting
- Amy Carney, accessibility specialist & web developer at Digilou
- Nick Croft, lead developer at ReaktivStudios
- Ole Guldberg and Anna Ingeborg Linnet, Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted (Denmark)
- Rian Rietveld, web accessibility specialist at Level Level
- Empish Thomas, freelance blogger and writer
My friend Nicolas Steenhout is giving the keynote, Open Source and accessibility: Do it with us, not for us.
Nic has been involved with both WordPress and Joomla over the years, and will discuss how both apps have failed in building in accessibility in their open source projects.
But there’s hope, as Nic will explain in his keynote.
About WordPress Accessibility Day
Organized in 2022 by volunteers from the WP Accessibility Team and the WordPress community, the first WordPress Accessibility Day launched in 2020.
This year’s free and virtual event includes presentations and lightning talks, with actionable tips you can implement in your projects and share with your teams/organization.
About the Sessions and Schedule
WordPress Accessibility Day 2022 kicks off November 2, 2022 at 14:45 UTC with 15-minute opening remarks.
Joe Dolson, co-lead organizer of WordPress Accessibility Day will have brief opening comments.
I’m glad the event is a single track, I don’t have to decide with session to attend!
A few more details about WordPress Accessibility Day:
- Livestreams can be watched on the WordPress Accessibility Day website
- Captioning and American Sign Language is provided for each session
- Transcripts will be available through StreamText
- Slido will be used for chat and submitting questions to the speakers
- After the event, recorded sessions will be on YouTube (with corrected captions)
- First session is 15:00 UTC on November 2, 2022
- Sessions start at the top of the hour
Kudos to the web design folks for automatically converting session times to my time zone. I don’t have to do extra work to convert session times to my time zone.
Check the WordPress Accessibility Day 2022 schedule to confirm which talks you want to attend.
Note: from past experience with online 24-hour events, I know schedules change. Check the schedule the day before and day of the event to confirm times for sessions you want to attend.
I’m not staying up 24 hours to watch every session (that’s why I’ll be watching recordings later!).
Hoping my schedule allows me to watch these sessions live :
- Nicolas Steenhout: Open Source and accessibility: Do it with us, not for us
- Rian Rietveld and Morgan Kay: Form Accessibility and Beyond
- Michele Butcher-Jones: Pssst, hey you! Not everyone likes videos!
- Maxwell Ivey: Accessibility is a partnership that requires communication
- Bela Gaytan: Beyond Colors and Captions: How to Provide More Inclusive Accessibility
Wrapping Up
WordPress Accessibility Day 2022 is a not-to-be-missed event for everyone involved with WordPress.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn and network with other users, designers, and developers about building and creating accessible WordPress websites.
With sessions ranging from beginner to expert, you can pick and choose which topics you’re been wanting to learn about.
And the event is free and available to watch from the comfort of your work or home.
I hope you’ll join me on November 2 and 3, 2022. If you’re on Twitter, you’ll find me live tweeting sessions at @redcrew on Twitter.
