Inclusive design is not truly inclusive without disabled voices. Too often, accessibility testing is focused on box ticking, is completely tokenistic, or missing entirely. In this practical session, you’ll learn how to set up and run user testing sessions that genuinely include and empower disabled people. Drawing on real-world experience, I’ll cover everything from ethical…

Jennifer is a frontend engineer working in a highly regulated financial institution. In her daily work, she experiences how accessibility is often treated as a secondary concern, something to be addressed only if time and budget allow. But in highly regulated environments like banking, this approach is not only short-sighted, it’s risky. Accessibility is not…

In today’s digital world, ensuring documents are accessible to all individuals, including those with disabilities, is more crucial than ever. This session will delve into the fundamentals of document accessibility, focusing on how to effectively create, review, and modify digital documents to meet the needs of individuals using assistive technologies and meet international accessibility standards.…

Imagine a world, where your mouse doesn’t work properly, just your keyboard. Where text plays hide-and-seek, but a screen reader always finds it. Welcome to a digital escape game set in a unique world where assistive and standard technologies swap roles. In this presentation, I’ll take you behind the scenes of this game, designed to…

Currently, AI is buzzing around the world where people want to find solutions that can be taken care through any AI implementation. It definitely enhances the productivity and helps find solutions to different problems. However, one needs to ensure that the output given by the AI is also an accurate one and if it will…

Digital skills training programs have the power to transform lives, but for many people with disabilities (PWDs), accessibility barriers still limit full participation. This session explores how WordPress, as an open-source platform, can be a catalyst for digital inclusion by enabling accessible learning environments and empowering underrepresented groups. Through a case study of a community-driven…

Rose Kivuva is a software developer and passionate advocate for accessibility and ethical technology. In this eye-opening session, she takes a deep look at how artificial intelligence — while exciting and powerful — isn’t always designed with everyone in mind. From chatbots that can’t understand certain speech patterns to image generators that skip alt text,…

We tend to think of accessibility only in terms of the websites we build, but often fail to consider the physical and virtual spaces where we gather to storytell and create tomorrow’s WordPress. Events such as WordCamps, WordPress Meetups, do_action, etc, come in various flavors powered by local communities around the world each year. But…

Most accessibility professionals know that screen reader testing is essential — but very few feel confident doing it. In this session, Akosua Asabere (a native screen reader user and seasoned accessibility engineer) and Deneb Pulsipher (a visual developer and accessibility advocate) team up to demystify screen reader use for beginners and intermediate testers alike. Together,…

Accessibility goes far beyond visual design. In WordPress projects, themes and plugins play a key role in either enabling — or breaking — an inclusive browsing experience. This session presents a practical technical checklist that developers, QA professionals, and site maintainers can use to test and validate the accessibility of any WordPress theme or plugin,…