WordPress Accessibility Day 2024 Archive

Group: Speakers

Alice Orru

Alice Orrù is a white woman in her 40s; she has brown bob hair, large tinted-framed glasses and a joyful smile. She holds a microphone and has on her lap the book she wrote on inclusive languages in Italian.

Alice is a multilingual content writer and translator with a penchant for accessibility, software localization, and WordPress. She writes and translates content that describes the activity of freelancers and WordPress companies in a transparent, reliable, and inclusive way. Alice joined the WordPress community in 2015 and works with the Italian Polyglots team. She co-authored the […]

Tina Reis

Tina Reis is a white non-binary person in their early 30s with medium-long red hair and glasses. In the photo, they are wearing a blue blouse and there is a park with green trees in the background.

Tina Reis is an SEO consultant and WordPress developer specialising in web accessibility based in Berlin, Germany. They started out developing SEO strategies for websites large and small – from e-commerce to non-profit sites. Later, they discovered their love for WordPress when working at an agency and taught themselves the skills of frontend development, learning […]

Jonny Allbut

Jonny Allbut is a white male in his late 40's with short greying hair and glasses, wearing a blue checked shirt.

Jonny Allbut is Head of User Experience and Quality Assurance at Illustrate Digital, one of Europe’s leading UX and WordPress technology agencies. Starting his career as a traditional graphic designer, he’s been building websites since the late 90’s and specialised in bespoke WordPress development since 2005. With a broad career in the creative industries working alongside […]

Gian Wild

Gian Wild is a white woman in her 40s, although she looks much younger, she has short blonde hair, blue eyes, glasses and a big smile

Gian Wild is the CEO of AccessibilityOz, with offices in the United States, Europe and Australia. She has worked in the accessibility industry since 1998, when she worked on the very first accessible Australian web site. Her major achievements include: six years’ active membership in the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group contributing to […]

Jeanette Stair

Jeanette is a middle-aged white woman with short hair and glasses.

Since 2009, Jeanette has learned about and practiced making digital products accessible for Federal, state, and local government clients as well as large and small non-government organizations. She’s passionate about helping everyone access the information and services they need.

Victoria Nduka

Victoria Nduka is a black woman in her 20's with thick afro hair packed in a high puff and a big friendly smile.

Victoria Nduka is a user experience designer passionate about technology, representation, and accessibility. She writes technical articles about accessibility, design, and open source. As an open-source enthusiast, Victoria not only contributes to projects herself but also encourages others to get involved, especially non-code contributors. When she’s not advocating for better digital accessibility or diving into […]

Elena Brescacin

Elena Brescacin standing and smiling at the world. Wears a t-shirt and a golden necklace with a letter "E" pendant. Short hair and speakers-equipped glasses on.

Elena Brescacin works as Accessibility Consultant at Tangity, a NTT Data design company. Totally blind since birth, her passion for technology allows her to find best solutions to everyday life’s challenges; there’s no tech gadget she doesn’t own, or at least know. Other hobbies include playing chess, word games, true crime podcasts, and she maintains […]

Norbert Rum

A black-and-white portrait of Norbert Rum with headphones, resting his chin on his fist, wearing a collared shirt.

With more than 20 years of experience, Norbert has carved out a distinguished career in the digital world of Accessibility, SEO/SEM. His journey is marked by leading successful accessibility solutions, conducting WCAG compliance audits, and founding a thriving online community for the visually impaired over a decade ago, which now boasts over 23,000 members. This […]

AmyJune Hineline

AmyJune Hineline: a woman with glasses pointing to a logo on her tshirt

Community Architect. She is responsible for supporting the Certification team’s efforts in building and maintaining exams and related documentation for exam products in the Linux Foundation’s certification portfolio. Her ongoing experience as a hospice nurse keeps her in touch with many end-users’ challenges. In her continued efforts to make a difference, she helps organize A11yTalks, […]

Deneb Pulsipher

Deneb Pulsipher, a brown-haired, brown eyed man with sideburns smiling at the camera

“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 […]