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How To Build More Accessible Websites with Wagtail

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About this session

In this tutorial, you'll learn:

  • The basics of web accessibility and common challenges
  • What the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are and how to choose which version to follow
  • How you can use Wagtail and Django to build accessibility best practices into your code
  • How to use Wagtail's built-in accessibility checker to encourage people to create more accessible content
  • Strategies and tools for continuously evaluating and improving accessibility

You'll leave this workshop with a starter project that you can build up into a fully deployable website.

Presented by

  • Meagen Voss

    Meagen Voss

    Meagen Voss began her journey into content management nerdery with a WordPress website in the early 2000s and is now Wagtail Community Manager and Editor for Wagtail.org. She officially works for Torchbox, an agency that supports non-profits and other groups doing good in the world. When she’s not coding or writing, you can find her hiking in the mountains of North Carolina

  • Scott Cranfill

    Scott Cranfill

    Scott is currently a full-stack web developer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where his team uses Django to power the main JPL website, the JPL Space intranet, and a large number of other internal websites. He’s also a member of the core team for Wagtail, the CMS used on all of the above JPL sites, and is also a part of its accessibility subteam.

    Prior to coming to JPL, Scott was part of the inaugural class of Design & Technology Fellows at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where Django powered the CFPB’s first open source repo, released in 2012, and Wagtail was chosen for rebuilding consumerfinance.gov in 2015.