What inspired or motivated you to give this talk at WordCamp?
Client-side applications and JavaScript are an important piece of the future of WordPress. But using JavaScript can both create amazing accessible experiences or applications that are completely unusable by people with disabilities. Knowing how you can use JavaScript to create great, accessible applications is crucial for the future of web development.
How do you “create intention” in your job, career, or life?
Advocating for accessibility is an ongoing, constant intention. Having a socially positive motivation for all the work I do is an amazing way of being intentional about the choices I make.
If you were a WordPress Plugin, what Plugin would you be and why?
WP Accessibility, obviously.
If you were not doing your current job, what profession would you be in and why?
Before going into web development, I was working in academic libraries during the day and as a freelancing musician at night. I imagine that I would have continued on one or the other of those plans—but we’ll never know!
What professional and/or research resource(s) can’t you live without?
The internet. 😉