WordPress Accessibility Day

WordPress Accessibility Day is a 24-hour global event dedicated to promoting and learning website accessibility best practices for WordPress websites.

The conference is pre-approved for continuing education credits for the International Association of Accessibility Professionals Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) and Certified Professional in Core Competencies (CPACC) certifications.

Sessions will be held via Zoom with live captions and American Sign Language interpretation.

See the schedule and register to attend for free.

Keynote: The Renaissance of Achievement for People with Disabilities
Ed Summers, Head of Accessibility at GitHub

Generative AI technology is evolving rapidly with enormous potential for people with disabilities. Join Ed Summers, a blind developer and Head of Accessibility at GitHub, for an exploration of positive impacts that are emerging within the disability community.

Additional talks:

• Accessibility Is Not Enough: What We Learned
• Building the Website for The Dot Experience
• Your Accessibility Policy Is Collecting Dust. We Reviewed 5,000. Here’s What We Found.
• Band-Aids on Broken Code: Why Accessibility. Plugins Can’t Replace Human Skill
• You Didn’t Fix Accessibility. You Automated the Problem: AI in the WordPress Ecosystem
• Embedded Alt Text: Smarter Image Workflows in WordPress 7.0
• From Plugin to Product Experience: Accessibility Lessons from Improving WooCommerce Extension Onboarding
• What if we choose accessibility over beauty? My story with epilepsy
• Fix It Before It Exists: Accessibility Through Style Guides
• From Compliance to Conversion: How Accessibility in WordPress Expands Reach, Trust, and Revenue
• AI, accessibility, and WordPress: deciding what to trust, test, and do yourself
• Why Accessibility Bugs Survive Modern Development Workflows
• The PDF Trap: When Accessible Websites Still Exclude Users
• Making accessibility actionable: clear, testable acceptance criteria
• Who Owns Accessibility After a WordPress Site Launches?
• Accessibility and neurodivergence: Not everyone navigates the same way
• Do accessibility personas actually work?
• I Built WordPress Sites for Years Without Thinking About Accessibility — Here's What I Wish I Knew
• Nobody Budgets for Accessibility Until You Make the Case Right
• What Accessibility Research Taught Me About Building Better Content Experiences
• Mind the Focus: Keeping Users on Track
• When Does Zoom Become an Accessibility Failure?
• Real-World Remediation Pushback

Register to attend today!