Component Pattern Libraries for Accessible WordPress Experience: Reed Piernock

If your organization has many - potentially even hundreds of websites that it manages, ensuring a usable and accessible experience that also follows branding guidelines can be a challenge. Creating a pattern library system that integrates components into both custom themes and custom blocks allows developers to update front-end code in just one place, keeping everything consistent across multiple repositories.

This presentation will demonstrate how pattern library systems work, how themes and blocks can be built using shared components, and how accessibility testing is an integral part of the process from concept to deployment. It will also illustrate how building an accessible system takes the burden away from content editors by allowing them to focus only on any accessibility warning or errors in the content they control.

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• Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker
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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:
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 via the messaging feature in Meetup or email meetup (at) equalizedigital.com 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.