Government Website Redesign: Implementing Accessibility by Daniel Schutzsmith
Pinellas County has embarked on a website redesign project of their main property from a currently static site to a CMS-powered one on top of WordPress. Over the past year and a half, Daniel has led the design and development of the new theme with a focus on accessibility from the beginning. He’ll share some of the processes and thinking behind the setup and findings that have made the project a smoother operation than in previous attempts. He’ll also share how the editorial team, composed of Public Information Officers and Department liaisons, has worked with the content audit and rewrites over the past several months, again with a focus on accessibility using the tools WordPress core provides as well as some handy plugins like Equalize Digital's Accessibility Checker. This meetup will focus heavily on sharing tips, and tools, and discussing the process of large website deployments with thousands of pieces of content across almost 100 stakeholders.