{"id":241319,"date":"2014-10-14T14:53:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T18:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=241319"},"modified":"2014-11-18T15:45:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T20:45:52","slug":"organizing-fully-accessible-communities","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/session\/organizing-fully-accessible-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing fully accessible communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/jordan-quintal\/\" title=\"speaker info\">Jordan Quintal<\/a> in the <a href=\"\/track\/community\" title=\"Community track listings\">Community<\/a> track<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1bcQvPXSxwhzsIS21J8WKKX2ioTfdPiuXm7zUFdCWs4k\" target=\"_blank\">Link to slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of us have discovered that WordPress.org has made efforts into making the WordPress platform more web accessible to those with physical and mental challenges, as a website publishing platform, but what about WordPress communities?<\/p>\n<p>My presentation will discuss how to make your WordPress community or WordCamp event more accessible. I will cover what accessibility is, and why it is important. I will cover who accessibility affects, and how accessibility can help those affected. I will also discuss what it means to me as a person with a physical disability, and share some life experiences and real life challenges. From there, I will share some informative tips on how any community leader can go about making their WordPress communities and WordCamp events more accessible.<\/p>\n<h2>Learning outcomes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>an understanding of how to make your local WordPress community more accessible to people with disabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Jordan Quintal in the Community track Link to slides Most of us have discovered that WordPress.org has made efforts into making the WordPress platform more web accessible to those with physical and mental challenges, as a website publishing platform, but what about WordPress communities? My presentation will discuss how to make your WordPress community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/session\/organizing-fully-accessible-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Organizing fully accessible communities<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7390768,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1416065400,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[241171],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[273],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-241319","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-community"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"November 15, 2014","time":"10:30 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"241171","slug":"jordan-quintal","name":"Jordan Quintal","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/jordan-quintal\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/241319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7390768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/241319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242341,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/241319\/revisions\/242341"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/241171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=241319"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=241319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}