During the pandemic last year, our local WordPress Community focused heavily on Accessibility and WordPress. From hosting joint WordPress Meetups to contributing as speakers or volunteers at events, we highlighted the importance of accessibility. WordCamp Santa Clarita’s focus on making a more open web is a direct result of the work of a passionate local Community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are extremely excited to announce our event\u2019s keynote speaker, Joe Dolson. Joe is a WordPress plug-in developer and a web accessibility consultant. He’s part of the Make WordPress Accessible team<\/a>, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has been building websites & providing consulting services since 2004 and started using WordPress in 2006, converting my own blog from BlogSpot to WordPress. By 2008, he built his first plug-in (WP to Twitter), which is still going strong today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joe was one of the Lead Organizers for the first-ever WordPress Accessibility Day,<\/a> a 24-hour event dedicated to addressing website accessibility in WordPress with presenters from around the world. The event helped our Community learn how to make our WordPress site accessible and included tips on addressing the areas where WordPress can fall short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joe\u2019s keynote will kick off WordCamp Santa Clarita at 8:15 am PT on Saturday, July 17th. View the full event schedule and secure your free tickets<\/a> by registering for our virtual event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the pandemic last year, our local WordPress Community focused heavily on Accessibility and WordPress. From hosting joint WordPress Meetups to contributing as speakers or volunteers at events, we highlighted the importance of accessibility. WordCamp Santa Clarita’s focus on making a more open web is a direct result of the work of a passionate local… Continue reading Keynote: A Conversation with Joe Dolson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1248163,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1626534900,"_wcpt_session_duration":2700,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"https:\/\/wordpress.tv\/2021\/08\/02\/joe-dolson-joe-a-simpson-jr-keynote-a-conversation-with-joe-dolson\/","_wcpt_speaker_id":[1501,1728],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[41,43,42],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-1499","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-colossus","wcb_track-the-revolution","wcb_track-the-sky-tower","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"July 17, 2021","time":"8:15 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"1501","slug":"joe-dolson","name":"Joe Dolson","link":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/speaker\/joe-dolson\/"},{"id":"1728","slug":"joesimpsonjr","name":"Joe Simpson Jr","link":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/speaker\/joesimpsonjr\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1499\/revisions\/1606"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1501"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1728"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/joedolson"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}