WP Accessibility Day is dedicated to promoting and learning website accessibility best practices for WordPress websites.
About the Event
WordPress Accessibility Day is an online event with a 24-hour single track of presentations. Attendees can register for free and watch live streams of talks held via Zoom with live captions and American Sign Language (ASL) Interpretation. After the conference ends, presentations are edited, transcribed, captioned, and made freely available on the web.
History
Originally started in 2020 by the WordPress core Accessibility Team, the WordPress Accessibility Day conference is now organized by volunteers worldwide through an independent nonprofit organization, “WP Accessibility Day.”
WP Accessibility Day was founded in 2023 by Amber Hinds, Joe Dolson, and Bet Hannon. Creating an independent organization to run the event has numerous benefits. These include being able to pay speakers and invest in additional accessibility services such as sign language interpretation, having fewer limitations on marketing tactics, and ensuring that the core WordPress accessibility team can focus on patching bugs rather than organizing an event (among others).
About our Organization
Nonprofit Status
WP Accessibility Day is a registered nonprofit in Texas, U.S.A. We have 501(c)(3) nonprofit status through a fiscal sponsorship agreement with Knowbility, a nonprofit organization working to achieve equal access to technology for people with disabilities.
Knowbility Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (tax ID 74-2902291).
Our Mission
Our mission is to demystify website accessibility for WordPress developers, designers, content creators, and users so that they can build websites that work for people of all abilities.
Our Board
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Amber Hinds
WPAD Board President, CEO of Equalize Digital
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Bet Hannon
WPAD Board Treasurer, CEO of AccessiCart
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Joe Dolson
WPAD Board Secretary, Owner of Accessible Web Design
It Takes a Village
Each event that we organize takes a large number of volunteers to plan and execute. We’re incredibly grateful to the community members and sponsors who help make WordPress Accessibility Day conferences possible. Please visit our event sites to learn more about each year’s sponsors and organizers.
Want to get involved? Learn more about the organizer teams that make WordPress Accessibility Day happen.