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.

Our first speaker in the WordCamp Toronto 2014 Speaker Spotlight is Renee Moore, a marketer in the pharmaceutical industry who uses WordPress to help pharmacists and compounders to do offline and online marketing.

Click here to read more about Renee.

Renee will be presenting 19 Plugins You Should Be Using in the User / Admin track.