Jordan Quintal is a seasoned WordPress Developer, Contributor and Community Member with over 10 years of Web Development experience. He is currently the President of GeniusMedia.ca, the Founder of AgentAccelerate.ca, as well as a Freelancer through JordanQ.ca. Jordan is also a huge Web Accessibility advocate and very active in various a11y Communities. He has presented and attended dozens of Meetups, Camps, and Conferences across Canada and the U.S.

Presentation: WordPress Accessibility: Spreading the word!

“I really want to reach out to those that understand accessibility, and have a desire to contribute, but have difficulty moving forward.

I want people to realize that supporting web accessibility is not just for developers that code accessible or write accessible patches, but that it can involve anyone and everyone.” Continue reading →

Jem is a User Experience (UX) designer who specializes in building insightful, creative and usable digital experiences. A journalist in a previous life, he came to digital media after discovering its innovative storytelling techniques and how it delivers immersive experiences across platforms, languages, and devices. He is a User Experience Specialist with Analytical Engine Interactive, a Toronto-based UX, Content Strategy and Business Analysis consultancy, where he solves unique UX puzzles to deliver digital experiences that users love.

Presentation: Delightful Design with the Kano Model

“First and foremost, I have to state that the Kano Model isn’t that new. It is a well-respected product development theory from the 1980s that has been used by various industries to build products that users would want. Since 2012, usability expert Jared Spool has been introducing the model to drive User Experience (UX) strategies and has been the subject of most of his keynote addresses one of which happened here in Toronto.

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“I develop websites and teach other people how to do the same in Kent, OH. I built my first website in 1998. It was an ode to toast. Unfortunately the University of Oregon did not see fit to archive it on its web servers.

My background is in linguistics, and for me, making websites is like playing a really fun linguistics game with real-time rewards. I built my first WordPress website in 2013 and have been enamored with WordPress ever since.

I don’t consider myself to be a designer (though I *love* good design) or a developer (yet) — I have training in library science and information architecture, so my approach to website implementation really focuses on the content and how to make it usable and accessible.

I love WordPress for how functional it is – how possible it is to make websites *do* things – and how those functions and possibilities come from the incredible community that’s grown around it. Off the web, I do a lot with food (source, grow, cook, eat), yoga, and small child wrangling.”

Presentation: WordPress Development for Non-Developers: An Introductory Tour Under the Hood

“I started digging around template files on my 2nd WordPress site and was thrilled to see what kinds of changes I could make once I figured out where all of the inputs were coming from.

I’ve heard feedback from other Camps that there’s often a gap between user- and developer-geared tracks, where the latter tends to assume a level of understanding that leaves new developers a bit lost. I wanted to give a presentation that offers a gentler, laypeoples transition from the front end to the underside of the system.” Continue reading →

I am involved in content creation and management in a number of ways – working in communications at TD Bank, copywriting for enollo agency client websites, and writing weekly posts for ShopStorm. I finished my bachelors with a focus on communications from University of Toronto. I am a proponent of WordPress and have built client websites on the platform in the past. This will be my first time as speaker at a WordCamp, and I’m looking forward to it!

Presentation: Don’t let content hold your website back.

“We’ve all heard that “content is king”, but In the process of creating a website, content often gets ignored and left behind as the last thing to be crafted. Through this talk, I’d like to share my learnings from writing for different mediums – newspaper, websites, blogs, books, marketing materials – to help others improve their content.” Continue reading →