WordPress Accessibility Day 2023 Archive

Group: Volunteers

Jonathan Bossenger

Jonathan Bossenger is a white man in his 40s with a shaved head. In this photo he's holding a microphone and speaking to a crowd

Sponsored contributor for the WordPress project, working with the Training Team. I like to get stuff done. Husband and father of two energetic boys. Brazilian Jiu-jitsu for fun and stress release.

Piccia Neri

Piccia Neri is a white woman in her 50s, with long grey hair tied up at the back, wearing glasses and a smile in the sun.

Piccia Neri is a UX and accessible design lead, consultant and speaker, helping businesses and agencies win on the web by putting users at the centre. She loves educating designers and developers in the best UX, UI and accessibility practices via workshops, courses, and talks, in 3 languages. Piccia is currently UX and UI lead […]

Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk, white man in his early 40s with glasses, grey hair and a friendly smile.

Joost de Valk is the founder of Yoast. He has an extensive background in digital marketing and WordPress. He is married to Marieke, co-founder of Yoast and its CEO until its sale to Newfold Digital in 2021. Marieke and Joost together have four children and live in the Netherlands. Through their investment firm Emilia Capital, […]

Laura Hopkins

Laura Hopkins is a white woman in her 60's with shoulder-length light brown hair. She is standing outside and is wearing black framed glasses and a yellow jacket.

Laura has served as UTA’s EIRAC since 2018 — working with leadership across campus to build an electronic accessibility program that works daily to ensure all of UTA’s electronic resources are accessible to everyone. Laura will be presenting at Educause’s Virtual Conference on Oct. 18, 2023 sharing the VPAT® scorecard she created. The scorecard has […]

Alicia St Rose

Bronze skinned woman with freckles and short cropped hair, cheerfully smiling on a bright sunny day.

Alicia St. Rose is a WordPress Passionista. She has over 17 years working solely with WordPress as a designer and developer at her micro agency, WP with Heart. She enjoys empowering others to fearlessly navigate their WordPress dashboards and build pretty things through one-on-one coaching and her monthly subscription, Decked Out WP Content. She is […]

Amanda Roper

Woman with blue glasses and short brown hair smiling directly at the camera wearing a lopsided rust-colored beanie and a zip-up bomber jacket.

Amanda Roper is currently an Accessibility Program Manager at T. Rowe Price Digital, in Philadelphia, PA. Originally from Denver, Colorado, she worked in key operational support roles at the University of Colorado at Boulder, CVS, the City of Denver, and the Natural Foods Industry. Amanda has devoted her career to companies and organizations pledging to […]

Monika Prasad

Monika, a woman in her 30s of Indian descent, with fair skin, long brown hair, stands in front of a brick wall, wearing a sweet smile

Hi there! I’m passionate about digital accessibility, and it’s given me a unique perspective in designing websites and other digital media. With a focus on inclusivity and user-centered design, I deliver innovative, accessible solutions that go above and beyond industry standards. My role involves guiding the creative direction and visual identity of companies, producing captivating […]

Julia Murray

Julia wearing a rose-printed corduroy blazer, yellow plastic earrings and necklace and red dress. She is standing in the corner in front of 2 windows, smiling and holding her very large black cat named Punkin. Julia is a tall white queer cis-gender woman with dark brown hair pulled into a ponytail, and hazel eyes

Julia is a Principal UX Designer at Label Insight and an Interaction Design instructor at Texas State’s Communication Design Program. Since 2017, she’s been deeply immersed in accessible design, sharing insights at companies and educational institutions including 8th Light, Label Insight, UCLA Extension, and the University of Missouri Information Experience Lab. Julia holds a BFA […]

Marta Torre

image of Marta, a white cis woman giving a presentation wearing a black t-shirt with the word human in lgtbiq+ colours.

Freelance full-stack web developer in Open Source projects. Advocate of clean code, open source, web sustainability, web accessibility, and privacy. And I’m a very active volunteer in the community, helping in two very important teams: The plugin review team and WPDiversity. I advocate for social justice, diversity, inclusion, and that we all have the same […]

Pratik Tamgadge

Pratik is an Indian with brown skin tone in his 30s

Working as a Quality Assurance professional for 9+ years. Currently working on User experience and Accessibility testing for multiple organizations.