Category: Accessibility

Creating flow in your digital work to bring balance and happiness

Start time: Sunday, 2.45pm

Exploring prioritisation, impact and knowing when to stop.

Emer will give tips on prioritising deliverables for users and understanding what is enough for a first release or a minimum viable product. She will explain why delivering in increments in phased delivery creates higher quality products which are more on target while reducing stress levels and reduce project creep (constantly adding on to requirements) which can add negativity and difficulty to your workload. That feeling it is never done.

Stop trying to force grow an oak tree, start with a sapling which will help inspire and nourish your projects and avoid your burnout. She will bring in techniques from Agile, Scrum and Kanban from her work in her corporate days to directly help WordPress businesses and project managers.

  • How do we prioritise and decide what is essential now just for the project but for your own wellbeing? 
  • How to we address impact on each feature and impact to ourselves? 
  • How can we create a better experience for everyone?

Lightning Talk: How popup libraries emerged with WordPress

Popup Libraries is an artist-led social initiative to create small pop-up libraries in arts organisations, community centres and other non-commercial spaces that are open to the public.

Each small library is built from books donated by the local community and other elements of the libraries are made from recycled materials. In addition to the books, the libraries also have notebooks, pencils, paper and pens to encourage visitors to engage with creating ideas or images inspired by the books.

It started out as a WordPress website featuring news about found popup libraries and featuring a resource section to encourage visitors to start their own library with downloadable pdfs of posters and labels.

The project’s first Popup Library was opened recently at Rua Red Arts Centre in Tallaght, Dublin.

The project was established to inspire creativity, encourage recycling and enhance community spaces.

Graphic designer and photographer Doreen Kennedy will tell the story of how it evolved from a WordPress website, its site structure and how both parts of the project are open source.

Why subtitles are a must for online video

This session will reveal why subtitling needs to be budgeted and resourced as part of your website scope and video content planning. From SEO and e-learning to accessibility and usability, thinking about subtitling is a must for your marketing, behaviour change and customer engagement.

Abha will also share the progress on the Make WordPress subtitling campaign aimed at encouraging a change in how the need and benefit of subtitles is viewed. There will also be tips on using online software Amara for subtitling videos on WordPress.tv, and a great way of practising skills which can then transfer to your work.

The session will feature research with users on their experience of how subtitles allow them and others to access content rich materials. We hope at the end of this session, attendees and speakers will join the list of campaign champions.

How to start with accessibility

Most freelancers and agencies who work in web knows that accessibility matters, but during the daily working life it is sometimes hard to include accessibility into the projects.

At the same time accessibility seems like a huge area and it overwhelms sometimes to start with it.

In this talk I will show some tools and resources about accessibility that makes it easy to start with accessibility.

Also I will show the most common accessibility issues in web projects and provide simple solutions, that are easy to integrate.