Sumner has been designing websites since 1997 and was introduced to WordPress in 2008 and fell in love with it. Web Accessibility is her passion.
She is a member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) and an active supporter of various disability organizations. Her passion is to educate web designers using WordPress on the value and ease of universal and accessible design. Through her long-standing organization, Sumner M. Davenport & Associates, LLC., she and her team have built, maintained, evaluated and remediated dozens of WordPress websites to WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion.
Sumner is active in accessibility and legal conferences and educational venues, regularly speaking on topics related to compliance issues for WordPress websites. She has been invited to present at TechAccessOK and John Slatin AccessU, local WordPress Meetup groups and WordCamps. As Founder of wA11yWP, she and her team conduct ongoing educational events.
In early 2020, she and two colleagues started a local Meetup group to discuss WordPress and Accessibility and have invited renowned speakers on Accessibility topics to be the guest presenters. She has spoken at WordCamps Riverside and Santa Clarita and has served as the Speaker Wrangler for WordCamp SantaClarita 2020 and for WordCamp LAX 2020, and as the lead organizer for WordCamp SantaClarita 2021. She has participated in the Knowbility Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) as Developer team member and has been invited to be a mentor to other teams. In 2021, the team she mentored won 2nd place in the competition.
She is owned by a rescue dog named Grandpa, and two rescue cats, Merlin and Lily.