WordPress Accessibility Day 2023 Archive

Group: Speakers

Sandi Gauder

Sandi Gauder is a woman with long silver hair wearing glasses and smiling at the camera.

As a web accessibility specialist, Sandi has been developing modern, accessible websites for over 15 years. She also coaches designers, developers, and content producers on best practices for meeting web accessibility guidelines. She has led workshops for businesses, municipalities and web development firms on web accessibility and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). […]

Hans Skillrud

Hans Skillrud is a white man in his late thirties who has a big smile but not a lot of hair on the top of his head (He likes to think he's not 'losing hair', rather he's 'growing face'). Hans has blue eyes and is wearing a blue long sleeve shirt and is sitting indoors in front of a brick background.

Hans ran a 12 person web design agency for about a decade prior to selling that business and running Termageddon full time with his wife, Donata. At Termageddon, Hans oversees partnerships and business development opportunities and spends his time providing education to website owners about the importance of website policies. Outside of Termageddon, Hans spends […]

Donata Stroink-Skillrud

Donata is a woman with long dark hair. She is smiling in the photo and is standing in front of a brick background.

Donata Stroink-Skillrud, Esq., CIPP is an attorney licensed in Illinois and a Certified Information Privacy Professional. Donata is also the President and Legal Engineer behind Termageddon and is responsible for the policy questions, text and keeping clients’ policies up to date with changing legislation. Donata is the Chair of the American Bar Association’s ePrivacy Committee, […]

Maria Gabriela (Gaby) Gandica

Gaby, cheerfully smiling at the camera, with a living wall of plants serving as the background.

As a compassionate and dedicated UX Designer and Manager with over 13 years of experience in the tech world, Gaby has spent the last 7 years honing her skills in UX design, accessibility, and team management. Gaby is passionate about creating user-centric experiences that are accessible to all, striving for excellence in making the digital […]

Deneb Pulsipher

Deneb is a white man with short brown hair and dark brown eyes.

“Captain Accessible” Deneb (DEH-neb) gets excited about the inherent ability the web provides to let everyone access the same information, whether they’re able to see or not, hear or not, use a mouse or not, have no cognitive challenges, or do. The internet can be accessed by nearly everyone through regular technologies like web browsers […]

Gen Herres

Gen Herres is a white woman in her 40’s with long brown hair and a big friendly smile.

Gen Herres is the owner at Anphira, LLC, developer of Easy A11y Guide, and organizes the Baltimore WordPress meetup group. Prior to getting into WordPress development more than a decade ago, Gen was a developer for Boeing on the B-1 Bomber and was a lecturer at the Ohio State University in the computer science department. […]

Birgit Olzem

Birgit Olzem is a white woman in her 40's with short brown hair and a big smile. Wearing reading glasses like a tiara and a white scarf with different colored dots.

Meet Birgit Olzem, a WordPress enthusiast extraordinaire with a penchant for community and a heart as open as the source code she loves. With a diverse background in psychology, design, development, and advising startups, small business owners, and solopreneurs, Birgit is a true Renaissance woman who knows a thing or two about juggling responsibilities. Birgit […]

Helen Burge

Helen is wearing glasses with her golden hair in a bob, smiling at the camera.

After leaving university Helen worked in testing and part of all her roles involved accessibility testing. This is because she felt users were unappreciated in the need to make websites and applications accessible. Helen worked closely with developers to help learn the most effective way to find and report issues. From this, she was able […]