August 30, 2018 — While speaking about accessibility I’ve realised that for some people the key to understanding why accessibility is so important comes from experiencing how people with disabilities actually use the websites we build. So I’ll be demoing two pieces of assistive technology (AT): 1) Dragon NaturallYSpeaking – voice recognition software and NVDA – a screen reader. 1) Dragon NaturallySpeaking is voice recognition software, typically used by people with motor impairments who are unable to use mouse or keyboard or touch. I’ll demonstrate how people move around within pages, follow links, deal with internet forms, and can emulate mouse movements when they need to. 2) NVDA is a screen reader typically used by those who are blind, or have poor vision, but also sometimes by those with cognitive impairments such as dyslexia. I’ll demonstrate what you hear when a page first loads, how people move around a page, how they can find information they are looking for in pages, how they follow links, and interact with forms and dropdown menus. Along the way we’ll see the challenges faced by users of these products if sites are not well created.

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September 30, 2017 — 自治体の外郭団体“観光協会”
デザインを一新しWordPressを採用した大規模なホームページリニューアルの際に事務局スタッフだけで更新できるようにしたものの、なぜか更新が停滞。
停滞状態から約2年、この膨大な課題が山積する状況を打破し、アクセスを改善＆活性化させ、安定運用に乗せるまでの1年半の技術とプロセスとは。

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September 11, 2017 — Keerthana K is a developer based in Cochin, India. She was a participant in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2016. She’s an avid FOSS enthusiast and a passionate contributor to quite a few open source projects. She loves to tinker with gadgets and technology and to write about her coding escapades. She was also a speaker to DebConf16, the official Debian conference in 2016 held in Cape Town, South Africa.

This talk is especially meant for Front End Developers and Content Creators who are looking to expand their user base into South Asia and other emerging economies and will be in a beginner level.

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August 31, 2017 — An interesting talk on the power of technology to change the World and how WordPress can make this possible.

March 16, 2017 — …and made me more valuable as a writer. I detest feeling stupid and for years refused to dive into new technology because it always frustrated me. Teaching myself the basics of navigating WP as a user cured me of any technofear. It made me more confident also made me more valuable as a copywriter because I understood how websites are put together, know what is possible, how all the parts of digital marketing (should) work together. The ability to “speak the language” of design, basic development, and organic SEO means I can set higher fees. And that is a good thing.

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February 15, 2016 — In a world where poverty, hunger and unemployment are rife, where we are constantly reminded that we live in a time of turmoil on a planet that we are slowly killing, can we actually make a difference?
We take a look at some of the people and organisations who, along with the local WordPress community, are using technology to make a real difference.