Equalize Digital
Website Accessibility Consulting, Training, and Development
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Go Theme by GoDaddy Accessibility Audit: Alex Stine and Amber Hinds
June 19, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free
Join us as Alex Stine, Engineer & Accessibility Consultant, and Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, perform a live accessibility audit of the Go Theme by Go Daddy and provide real-time feedback to Senior Software Developer at GoDaddy, Evan Herman.
The presentation will demonstrate how to manually audit WordPress themes for accessibility while providing real-time feedback to help the GoDaddy team improve their theme. In addition to identifying areas of improvement, Alex and Amber will provide recommendations for fixes.
This meetup is part of a series where we provide live feedback to WordPress plugin and theme developers. Our goal with these meetups is to provide useful feedback to developers so they can improve the accessibility of their products and, in turn, all of the websites that use them. Want your product tested? Contact an organizer.
These meetups take place via Zoom and are live captioned. You must register to attend via Zoom.
About Alex Stine and Amber Hinds
Alex got his start in Web Development thanks to WordPress by starting off in Tech Support, moving into Accessibility Development, and finally managing the underlying infrastructure that WordPress self-hosted sites run on. Not long after starting in Tech Support, Alex lost what vision he had and is now completely blind. This was the single event that motivated him to enter the accessibility world. Helping others have the same access to information.
Amber is the CEO of Equalize Digital, a certified B corp specializing in WordPress accessibility and maker of the Accessibility Checker plugin. She is the lead organizer of our meetup.
About Go Theme by GoDaddy
Go is an innovative, Gutenberg-first WordPress theme, hyper-focused on empowering makers to build beautifully rich websites with WordPress.
Event Information
Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors:
- Live Captions: Paid Memberships Pro
- Organizer and post-event transcription: Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker
- Your Business here! Learn about sponsorship
Accessibility & Accommodations
This meetup will be held virtually over Zoom and live captioned, thanks to our sponsors. Slide links will be provided when applicable, and presenters are encouraged to make slides as accessible as possible with alternative text for images, etc.
We’re working to secure sponsors so that we can offer ASL interpretation.
All are welcome to attend. If you need specific accommodations to make this meetup work for you, please contact us and we will try our best to accommodate you.
Code of Conduct
Please note that this group is a welcoming space for all. As this event is part of the official WordPress Meetup program, all attendees must follow the WordPress Online Code of Conduct.
By RSVPing to this meetup, you agree to abide by these guidelines. If you have concerns that the Online Code of Conduct is not being followed, don’t hesitate to get in touch with an organizer.
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