WordPress Accessibility Day 2023 Archive

Group: Speakers

Morgan is a Software Engineer for Rocketgenius, where she works on the product team to build Gravity Forms. She has over 15 years’ experience with WordPress, both as a developer and a community organizer. She has organized WordCamps and WordPress meetups, and facilitated trainings and safe spaces for women and under-represented groups in technology. When […]

Rian is a digital accessibility specialist and web developer from the Netherlands. She works or the WordPress agency Level Level as an accessibility consultant and is a trainer for the online learning platform about web accessibility: The A11Y Collective. Rian loves to share her knowledge on WordCamps and conferences worldwide. When not coding, reviewing or […]

Aurooba Ahmed has over a decade of experience building bespoke WordPress projects – from small open source WordPress plugins to large custom community platforms. She’s also co-host of viewSource, a weekly WordPress development show and co-creator of the open source framework, Tangent. Hailing from Calgary, Canada, she can be found buried in a good book […]

Jennison co-founded Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) in 2012. Celebrated on the third Thursday each May, GAAD is dedicated to talking/learning about digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities. On the occasion of its 10th anniversary in 2021, he co-founded the GAAD Foundation, whose mission is to disrupt the culture of technology and digital […]

Peter has been working on the web “since the beginning” where he was lucky enough to be part of a small group to develop online access to Connecticut’s major newspaper. While working in Marketing & Communications, he developed technical skills to connect and share information pulled from various data sources. That lead to a career […]

Born prematurely in Serbia, Tanja Milojevic had retinal detachment due to incubator use, and was diagnosed with retinopathy of prematurity at age one. She had several surgeries on both eyes in the United States, but the result was only partial success. At age five, she was diagnosed with open and closed angle glaucoma in both […]

Mark was born blind, however he has never let this be a barrier to achieving his goals. Mark has always had a passion for sales, and after graduating from Suffolk University with a degree in business, he was determined to pursue a career in this field. He had a natural talent for communication and a […]

Gerson is the lead developer at Desert Wing Design, a digital agency based in Tucson, Arizona that provides web design and development services from an accessibility-first perspective. Through his work with Desert Wing Design and other digital agencies, Gerson hopes to help make the world wide web a more inclusive place for everyone regardless of […]

Priti Rohra, IAAP CPWA, is a veteran in the field of digital accessibility. A person with low vision, she entered into the digital accessibility world 20 years ago to ensure the perspective of people with visual impairments was included and their technology needs were met. Soon she developed a keen interest in finding out how […]

In 2014, after dropping out of theater school, Allie started teaching herself to code. She got her first internship in 2015, where she was introduced to WordPress. She spoke at her first WordCamp – WordCamp Miami – in 2017. Between 2016 to 2019, she built websites and provided WordPress support independently under the name Pixel […]