Government Website Redesign: Implementing Accessibility: Daniel Schutzsmith
Details
Pinellas County has embarked on a website redesign project of their main property from a currently static site to a CMS-powered one on top of WordPress. Over the past year and a half, Daniel has led the design and development of the new theme with a focus on accessibility from the beginning.
He’ll share some of the processes and thinking behind the setup and findings that have made the project a smoother operation than in previous attempts. He’ll also share how the editorial team, composed of Public Information Officers and Department liaisons, has worked with the content audit and rewrites over the past several months, again with a focus on accessibility using the tools WordPress core provides as well as some handy plugins like Equalize Digital's Accessibility Checker.
This meetup will focus heavily on sharing tips, and tools, and discussing the process of large website deployments with thousands of pieces of content across almost 100 stakeholders.
About the Speaker:
Daniel Schutzsmith, Website and Digital Project Manager at Pinellas County, a hybrid of equal parts design, code, strategy, and management. When not working, he enjoys giving back his time to the WordPress community as a WordCamp US 2022 organizer, a Tampa Bay WordPress Meetup organizer, host of #WPTalks on Twitter Spaces, curator of Tiny Press Email Newsletter, and a Producer at The WP Minute.
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Event Details:
This meetup will be held at U.S. 5 PM Pacific which is 7 PM U.S. Central, and 10 AM AEST and 5:30 AM IST the next day.
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Accessibility & Accommodations:
This meetup will be held virtually over Zoom and live captioned, thanks to sponsorship from WP Engine. Slide links will be provided when applicable and presenters are encouraged to make slides as accessible as possible with alternative text for images, etc.
We're working to secure sponsors so that we can offer ASL interpretation.
All are welcome to attend. If you need specific accommodations to make this meetup work for you, please contact an organizer and we will try our best to accommodate you.
Code of Conduct:
Please note that this group is a welcoming space for all and all members must follow the WordPress Online Code of Conduct.
By RSVPing to this meetup, you agree to abide by these guidelines. If you have concerns that the Online Code of Conduct is not being followed, please contact an organizer.
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