{"id":749,"date":"2017-02-25T19:49:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T00:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.stlouis.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=749"},"modified":"2017-03-18T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T16:29:39","slug":"creating-websites-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/creating-websites-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Websites for Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1 in 5 people in the US, report having some kind of disability. For some, these disabilities make it difficult to access the internet. That\u2019s where web accessibility comes in. According to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), web accessibility means that \u201cpeople with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web.\u201d Not only does web accessibility help people with disabilities, it helps others experience the Web, including individuals whose abilities have changed as they\u2019ve gotten older.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Web accessibility is so much more than standards and checking off items on a list. It\u2019s about having empathy for someone else. To be frank, web accessibility makes it possible for everyone to google the burning question that we all have at 2a.m.: Where can I get pizza at this hour?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This talk will cover:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The basics of web accessibility<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPeople First\u201d language<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The importance of empathy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inclusive design and content creation best practices<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Helpful tools and resources<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 in 5 people in the US, report having some kind of disability. For some, these disabilities make it difficult to access the internet. That\u2019s where web accessibility comes in. According to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), web accessibility &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/creating-websites-for-everyone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Creating Websites for Everyone<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13378964,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1489860000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[699],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[149451],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-749","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-3"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p837Xy-c5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"March 18, 2017","time":"1:00 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"699","slug":"jennifer-swisher","name":"Jennifer Swisher","link":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/jennifer-swisher\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13378964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/749\/revisions\/1291"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}