This yr, GreenGeeks is famous as a sponsor for WordPress Accessibility Day. This occasion begins on the twenty seventh of September and is a 24-hour international occasion. Which means you possibly can attend the stay talks no matter what time zone by which you reside.
Registration for this occasion is free until you wish to donate. Though donations aren’t essential to benefit from the occasion, they’re useful in ensuring occasions reminiscent of this proceed sooner or later.
Plus, you possibly can add a bit further to your donation to obtain a shirt particular to WordPress Accessibility Day.
Personally, I slightly get pleasure from memorabilia and merch from occasions reminiscent of this. Actually, my daughter nonetheless walks round with certainly one of our WordCamp shirts from 4 years in the past.
What’s WordPress Accessibility Day?
Began in 2020, WordPress Accessibility Day is actually a day of recognizing these with disabilities utilizing the Web. This contains those that undergo from numerous visible impairments, listening to loss, mobility problems, epilepsy, dyslexia, and a number of different problems.
As roughly 16% of the world’s inhabitants has a big incapacity, a extra accessible manner to make use of the Web is good for everybody. This occasion helps convey to gentle the significance of accessibility and why it’s important for on-line success.
The occasion is held on-line as attendees are capable of register free of charge and watch the stay streams throughout Zoom webinars. And since WordPress Accessibility Day is a 24-hour occasion, attendees can watch stay streams no matter the place they stay throughout the globe.
In case you miss a particular discuss, don’t fear; recordings can be found on the WordPress Accessibility Day’s YouTube channel.
I like the concept recordings have gotten extra obvious at the moment. There have been lots of talks I’d have liked to see however had been in a WordCamp on the opposite aspect of the world. This lets everybody benefit from the content material at their leisure.
What to Count on from WordPress Accessibility Day
The occasion begins on September 27, 2023, and begins at 14:45 UTC with opening remarks from Amber Hinds, Co-lead organizer. Afterward, you possibly can attend greater than 20 webinars overlaying a wide range of matters.
A number of the talks that stand out most to me embrace:
- Is my WordPress website accessible? Learn how to Carry out Accessibility and Usability Assessments
Are you aware in case your web site is accessible? Relying on location, having accessibility choices may very well be enforceable by regulation. On this discuss, Maria Gabriela Gandica helps you take a look at for and enhance the accessibility of your web site. - Go Past Checklists to Construct a Nice Course Studying Expertise
For individuals who are focused on constructing studying programs with a Studying Administration System, Sandi Gauder walks you thru going past easy checklists to create studying content material that’s nice for everybody to make use of. - Let’s Construct an Accessible WordPress Web page & Submit
Are you aware what it takes to create an accessible submit or web page in WordPress? On this webinar, Peter Ingersoll demonstrates the very best practices for together with accessibility in your content material. - Cellular Accessibility: Constructing Accessible Cellular Websites and Native Apps for Accessibility
Do you know that at the moment, greater than 54% of Web customers are on cell gadgets? Cellular accessibility is simply as necessary as it’s for desktop computer systems, and Gian Wild will break down the very best practices to accommodate those that use these gadgets. - Accessibility Pitfalls of WordPress Menus
Not everybody places lots of thought into the accessibility of menus in WordPress. On this dialogue, Deneb Pulsipher goes over why it is best to embrace accessibility in menus and what to keep away from by exhibiting how sure WordPress themes fail to accommodate.
These are only a handful of the talks you’ll have entry to on WordPress Accessibility Day. Others embrace all the things from accessible electronic mail strategies to creating animation pause buttons.
No matter the kind of web site you construct with WordPress, there are matters for nearly everybody…figuratively and actually.
Register for Free!
Don’t neglect that registration is free. This one-day occasion has lots of nice webinars, obtainable, and also you don’t wish to miss out on the knowledge offered. And when you miss a couple of due to timing, you too can entry them on YouTube, as I discussed earlier.
I’d like to finish by thanking the entire organizers, attendees, volunteers, and sponsors for serving to preserve the WordPress Accessibility Day occasion. You all show how an incredible neighborhood can convey collectively so many artistic and superior minds.
