Great UX & Business Growth With Accessible WordPress Websites

About The Webinar

Everybody should have the opportunity to experience any website in the best way possible. Whether you’re building a website for a client, or for your own business, you need to take steps towards reaching the widest audience, as well as making sure you comply with legal requirements.

In this webinar, Joe Dolson shares his passion for creating an equitable experience for all, using the web’s favorite CMS: WordPress. You’ll learn how accessibility can present opportunities for your business to grow while staying compliant with legal obligations.

Things You Will Learn

• Accessibility and your business: legal obligations, as well as opportunities for growth
• Accessibility and WordPress: core, interfaces and plugins
• Accessibility improvements in WordPress 5.8
• The concept of “accessible content”
• Website overlays: yay or nay?
• Automated and manual accessibility testing

Meet the Guest

Joe is a WordPress plug-in developer, a WordPress core committer, and a web accessibility consultant. He’s part of the Make WordPress Accessible team, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem.

He has been building websites & providing consulting services since 2004 and started using WordPress in 2006, converting his own blog from BlogSpot to WordPress. By 2008, he built his first plug-in (WP to Twitter), which is still going strong today!

Joe was the Lead Organizer for the first-ever WordPress Accessibility Day 2020, a 24-hour event dedicated to addressing website accessibility in WordPress with presenters from around the world.

Joe Dolson

Accessible Web Developer