Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson interview

Joe Dolson
Joe Dolson is speaking on Web Accessibility with JavaScript at WordCamp Minneapolis.

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. 😉

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About skarjune

Skarjune was a former contributor on the Make WordPress.org Marketing team, WordPress.org,Training Team, and WordCamp Minneapolis—St.Paul organizing team. Skarjune resigned as Contributor in 2019 after disagreeing one-to-one with both Matt Mullenweg and Joost de Valk over their takeover of the Communications Team without consulting team members. Some members left in addition to the former Leader cast aside, and work by the Communications and Training team was discarded by new leaders . Hopefully, new real Governance will replace Automattic at WordPress.og, which is not WordPress.com. Commercial Corporations should respect Open Source GPL.