WordPress Accessibility Day 2025 Archive

Build for Everyone or Build for No One

Intermediate

October 16, 2025 at 14:00 UTC

Session Video

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Accessibility impacts everyone, not just “disabled” users. From contrast to semantics, when you take the time to maximize accessibility, you’re improving every user’s experience. In this session, Kevin Andrews — a certified Web Accessibility Specialist and accessibility expert with over a decade of professional leadership and more than 20 years navigating the web with a screen reader — teams up with Elaine Shannon, a seasoned WordPress developer, to walk through common challenges and their solutions. We’ll break down what developers can fix right now to stop building broken websites: better markup, better navigation, and better contrast. No gatekeeping. No perfectionism. No excuses. You’ll leave knowing exactly where to start — and why it matters.

Speakers

Elaine, a white female with shoulder-length dirty blonde hair, stands smiling in her greenhouse in front of a leafy rosebush and a sparsely planted box of spinach. She is wearing a blue top and crocheted sky blue neck warmer.
Front-End WordPress Developer, Georgetown University
Kevin, a white male with brown hair and a short beard, stands smiling in a brightly lit field. He is wearing a blue and black quarter-zip sweater and looks relaxed.
Electronic IT Accessibility Coordinator, Georgetown University