{"id":4141,"date":"2017-09-27T07:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T12:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.us.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=4141"},"modified":"2017-10-29T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T00:48:09","slug":"five-attitudes-stopping-you-from-building-accessible-wordpress-websites","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/five-attitudes-stopping-you-from-building-accessible-wordpress-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Attitudes Stopping You From Building Accessible WordPress Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This talk will be given in a room that is specifically designed &#8211; as mandated by law &#8211; to be accessible to those with disabilities. Like our physical spaces, the web has accessibility standards too, but we don\u2019t always take those seriously, as we\u2019re not always legally required to do so.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not all accessibility experts, but our job is to put valid HTML on a page. If 18.7% of the population can\u2019t use what you create, are you doing your job? In this talk, we will look at attitudes that hold us back from creating web experiences for everyone. The point isn\u2019t to complain, but to move paste these assumptions towards better understanding and to start learning. This talk isn\u2019t being given by an accessibility expert, and you don\u2019t have to be one to attend it, either. We\u2019re here because we want everyone to be able to consume the HTML we generate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This talk will be given in a room that is specifically designed &#8211; as mandated by law &#8211; to be accessible to those with disabilities. Like our physical spaces, the web has accessibility standards too, but we don\u2019t always take those seriously, as we\u2019re not always legally required to do so. We\u2019re not all accessibility &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/five-attitudes-stopping-you-from-building-accessible-wordpress-websites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Five Attitudes Stopping You From Building Accessible WordPress Websites&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9688619,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1512163800,"_wcpt_session_duration":2700,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[3675],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[1106620],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-4141","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-banjo"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aOEk-14N","session_date_time":{"date":"December 1, 2017","time":"3:30 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"3675","slug":"josh-pollock","name":"Josh Pollock","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/josh-pollock\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4141\/revisions\/5502"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3675"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/shelob9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}