“I’m a freelance web application developer, and have been building web applications for the federal government and private sector for almost 20 years now.”

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Presentation: Save Time By Managing WordPress from the Command Line

WP-CLI is a set of tools that allow you to manage your WordPress installation from the command line. Many of the features of WP-CLI are huge timesavers. I’ll demonstrate the installation of WP-CLI and explain many the features that come with it. I recommend this presentation for anyone designing or developing in WordPress.

Billy Gregory is a Sr. Accessibility Engineer with The Paciello Group. Having spent many years as a front-end developer, Billy can relate to many of the challenges and the apprehension faced by developers who are new to accessibility.

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Presentation: Use ARIA Now!

In this session we will jump right in and use ARIA and HTML5 to create modern, accessible web applications. Starting with the basics, and working up to some more advanced examples, attendees will learn how to start using ARIA right away.

David’s career in digital products began while he was a production and product manager at the Financial Post and then at Canada NewsWire where his work focused on the publication of financial information products for the professional investor markets.

More recently, he has focused on improving project results through the building of high-performance teams.

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Presentation: Intro to Agile Practices

The session is intended for people new to Agile concepts and so will the key points of the Agile Manifesto as well as an intro exercise intended to introduce a number of the key practices of Scrum to participants.

Rick Radko is the founder and lead developer/designer of R-Cubed Design Forge and co-founder of LumosTech Training. He began building web sites and applications in 1996, and has been creating websites with WordPress since 2008.

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Presentation: Multisite for Multilingual

This talk is about creating a multilingual WordPress site using WordPress multisite. The talk will cover: the basics of setting up multisite, some plugins to make it easier to create a multilingual site, pros & cons of using multisite for multilingual sites, and some tips and tricks to help with your sites.

“Web Designer, Developer, Blogger and Mentor for the past 15 years. My loyalty shifted from HTML pages to CMS like WordPress and Joomla as I developed 5 of my own and more than 2 dozen WordPress primarily installations. With the intro of WordPress 3.0 I began to work exclusively with it for Web designs requiring a CMS.”

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Presentation: WP Front-End Editors

In the past 3-5 years WordPress has seen the emergence of frontend Visual Theme Designers that can be applied to both posts and pages. Headway Themes, Pagelines DMS, Ultimatum and Bakery’s Visual Composer are among these tools.

This presentation will examine the question – is there a rock solid WordPress Visual Designer?

Janis has over 10 years of professional experience as a multi-disciplinary Digital Designer. She has worked at Rogers Digital Media and Metroland Media advocating web and usability standards. In the latter, she had a key role as a self-made accessibility specialist. She currently works at Influitive as a User Experience Designer.

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Presentation: How to Perform an Accessibility Audit

“In my experience, I worked as a self-made accessibility advocate when AODA came down the pipe early this year. With limited time, and resources, I had to develop a strategy on my own as to how to perform this audit and work with developers to implement the changes.

As the field is so new, and there were no local leaders I could turn to as a mentor, I waded through much of this on my own. This is my chance to pass along these lessons as things I wish I knew when I started out.”

“I have been designing, building and running intranets and other web stuff since 1997. Currently I head the team responsible for OPSpedia, the Government of Ontario’s WordPress-based, employee-facing professional networking platform and intranet hosting solution.”

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Presentation: 1000 sites: MultiSite as an intranet hosting platform

Case study of OPSpedia, which uses WordPress MultiSite as a hosting platform for numerous Ministry and enterprise intranets, as well as a blogging platform and professional networking site for Government of Ontario employees.

Sean builds websites and communities, often at the same time. He spent more than a decade in Higher Education Enterprise IT, co-founded Resonant Studios, a web development company in 2005 and in 2012 was Chief Architect at InGamer, a technology startup building a second-screen companion fantasy game for live broadcast Sports.

Most recently, Sean is a Technical Product Manager at Desire2Learn, a Waterloo-based technology company that enable teaching and learning online.

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Presentation: Fixing Inaccessible Content

Learn about common web accessibility problems and be introduced to the WCAG 2.0 Sufficient and Advisory Techniques for resolving these problems.

Learn to identify common web accessibility problems and develop an understanding of the authoritative code solutions published by the W3C for these problems and be familiar with the How To Meet WCAG 2.0 resources.

“I am a full-stack web developer, currently working in a research program at St. Michael’s Hospital, who strongly believes in making web content accessible and usable. This goal has made me passionate about web standards, responsive design, progressive enhancement, accessibility guidelines, and web performance.

Since October 2012 I have been a member of the W3C’s Responsive Images Community Group, and I am a co-editor of their Use Cases and Requirements for Standardizing Responsive Images.”

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Presentation: Improving Performance with Responsive Images

“I will be speaking about the web’s hunger for more, bigger, and higher-resolution images, and the performance problem this creates. I’ll give a brief history of the new (and occasionally controversial) picture element, and discuss some other exciting new standards and techniques that are on the horizon.

Attendees can expect concrete examples of how picture works, and to learn how they can use responsive (and responsible!) images right now to improve performance and deliver the best possible experience to their users.”

“I am a WordPress evangelist who enjoys helping people share their most important stories and ideas. I love teaching and regularly contribute as both an instructor and a mentor to the Ottawa WordPress Group and Ladies Learning Code. I’m also one of the co-organizers of WordCamp Ottawa.”

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Presentation: Typography in Web Design

This presentation covers typography basics and best practices, examples of typography in web design, trends, personalities of type, an introduction to Google Fonts and different ways to enable fonts on your WordPress website.