This 12 months, GreenGeeks is famous as a sponsor for WordPress Accessibility Day. This occasion begins on the twenty seventh of September and is a 24-hour world occasion. Which means you may attend the dwell talks no matter what time zone through which you reside.

Registration for this occasion is free until you need to donate. Though donations aren’t essential to benefit from the occasion, they’re useful in ensuring occasions similar to this proceed sooner or later.

Plus, you may add a bit further to your donation to obtain a shirt particular to WordPress Accessibility Day.

Personally, I quite take pleasure in memorabilia and merch from occasions similar to this. In truth, 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 basically a day of recognizing these with disabilities utilizing the Web. This consists of 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 major incapacity, a extra accessible approach to make use of the Web is right for everybody. This occasion helps convey to gentle the significance of accessibility and why it’s very important for on-line success.

The occasion is held on-line as attendees are in a position to register free of charge and watch the dwell streams throughout Zoom webinars. And since WordPress Accessibility Day is a 24-hour occasion, attendees can watch dwell streams no matter the place they dwell throughout the globe.

In case you miss a selected speak, 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 present. There have been a number of talks I’d have beloved to see however had been in a WordCamp on the opposite facet 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 may attend greater than 20 webinars overlaying a wide range of subjects.

A few of the talks that stand out most to me embody:

• Is my WordPress website accessible? Tips on how to Carry out Accessibility and Usability Checks
  Are you aware in case your web site is accessible? Relying on location, having accessibility choices may very well be enforceable by legislation. On this speak, Maria Gabriela Gandica helps you check for and enhance the accessibility of your web site.
• Go Past Checklists to Construct a Nice Course Studying Expertise
  For many who are eager about 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 publish 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 units? Cellular accessibility is simply as essential as it’s for desktop computer systems, and Gian Wild will break down the very best practices to accommodate those that use these units.
• Accessibility Pitfalls of WordPress Menus
  Not everybody places a number of thought into the accessibility of menus in WordPress. On this dialogue, Deneb Pulsipher goes over why it is best to embody accessibility in menus and what to keep away from by displaying 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 embody every little thing from accessible e mail strategies to creating animation pause buttons.

No matter the kind of web site you construct with WordPress, there are subjects for nearly everybody…figuratively and actually.

Register for Free!

Don’t overlook that registration is free. This one-day occasion has a number of nice webinars, out there, and also you don’t need to miss out on the knowledge offered. And for those who miss a couple of due to timing, you can too entry them on YouTube, as I discussed earlier.

I’d like to finish by thanking all the organizers, attendees, volunteers, and sponsors for serving to preserve the WordPress Accessibility Day occasion. You all exhibit how a tremendous neighborhood can convey collectively so many artistic and superior minds.