WordPress Accessibility Day 2025 Archive

Group: Speakers

Vanessa Tillemans

Vanessa Tillemans is a light-skinned woman with long, curly salt-and-pepper hair, glasses, and a bright smile. She’s wearing a black blazer over a pale pink collared shirt.

Vanessa Tillemans is the founder of POURPIS, a digital accessibility firm built to protect businesses from costly lawsuits and lead the next generation of web compliance. With multiple certifications and deep legal insight, she helps companies move beyond surface-level fixes into true digital protection. Vanessa focuses on what impacts thousands of businesses each year — […]

Elaine Shannon

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.

A creator and a tinkerer, Elaine has always enjoyed things like sketching, crocheting, designing, and coding. As a developer she does her best to improve websites for everyone – end users, content editors, and bots. She has been using WordPress since 2007 and fondly reminisces over simpler days when only PHP was required to customize […]

Kevin Andrews

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.

Kevin, a certified Web Accessibility Specialist through the International Association of Accessibility Professionals, is deeply dedicated to exceeding compliance. He possesses a robust understanding of internationally recognized digital accessibility standards, and with his genuine, enthusiastic, and collaborative approach, he tirelessly ensures that websites and mobile applications go beyond meeting standards to truly serve all users […]

Rose Kivuva

Rose is a Black African woman with dark skin, wearing glasses and braids, and often seen with a warm, welcoming smile

Rose Kivuva is a software developer, open-source contributor, and passionate accessibility advocate based in Kenya. She has worked with organizations like Ushahidi, building and improving platforms that serve people in critical moments, while ensuring technology is inclusive and accessible to everyone. Rose believes that accessibility is not just about compliance, but about dignity, equal opportunity, […]

Samuel Osei

Samuel Osei is a dark skin man with a short hair and a smile, wearing a white t-shirt.

Samuel Osei is the WordPress Meetup Organizer in Kumasi, Ghana, where he leads sessions on WordPress and fosters local community engagement. He actively supports the global WordPress community by answering questions and helping users solve problems in the WordPress support forums. A strong advocate for the power of local tech communities, Samuel draws from his […]

James Warnken

Shown from the chest up, James standing with his arms crossed and slightly angled away from the camera. James is wearing a button up shirt that is black and white. His brown hair is swooped over away form his face and he is clean shaven. James smiles while looking back at the camera.

James Warnken is a legally blind/visually impaired digital accessibility expert and consultant passionate about helping organizations achieve their digital accessibility goals. James’s background in digital marketing, technology, and business combine with his 18+ years of lived experience with a disability to help make achieving accessibility goals both actionable and affordable. When organizations are accessible, this […]

Shawn Phua

Shawn Phua is a profoundly Deaf, Asian-Australian young man in his 30s with Malaysian-Chinese cultural heritage. Shawn has a very light brown skin. He has black hair, wears a pair of glasses and hearing aids user.

Shawn Phua (He / Him / His) is a profoundly Deaf, Asian-Australian man in his 30s who has lived in Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia, for most of his life. He is fluent in Auslan and English, and does not lip-read or speak. Shawn was born to Malaysian-Chinese hearing parents in a multilingual family where English is […]

Osdeibi Acurero

Photo of a Venezuelan man (he/him) with morena skin, curly dark hair, a short beard, and a septum piercing. He’s wearing black plastic-frame glasses, a black “WordCamp Bogotá 2024” t-shirt and a turquoise WordPress lanyard, looking straight at the camera with a calm expression.

I’m a full-time technology enthusiast and content creator, dedicated to demystifying SEO and WordPress for developers, designers, and UX/UI professionals. On my YouTube channel “SEO en Español”, I share practical insights and tutorials to show that SEO isn’t just a marketing discipline it’s an essential part of every development workflow. With +10 years of programming […]