WordCamp Europe 2023, WordPress 20th birthday!
With over 25 colleagues, we flew to Athens. Every year we look forward to it, WordCamp Europe! A number of Level Levelers will be on stage this year and we will be present again with The A11Y Collective! While we also celebrating the birthday of WordPress itself, we are super excited!
WordCamp Europe 2023
This year marks WordPress 20th anniversary! This will of course be celebrated by the annual three-day event, because the WordPress software is nothing without its people. So at the same time we celebrate our amazing, diverse community of web and WordPress specialists!
These days are all about the latest WordPress developments but also topics like Artificial Intelligent and WordPress, digital sustainability, web accessibility and inclusivity.
Of course, we have extra attention for our colleagues Rian and Mitchell who are shining on stage. Rian will join the panel today from 16:00 to 17:00, discussing “Women and Non-Binary Folx of WordPress”. Mitchell will talk about “Accessibility Meets Style: A Design Revolution” on Saturday 10 June. If you are also there, don’t miss our stars!
From 8 to 10 June 2023, the WordPress Community will dominate the cultural metropolis of Athens.
Today’s Highlights
Meanwhile, we finished Contributor Day and explored Athens city! The Level Level team took beautiful walks around the Acropolis with a cooling cocktail on the terrace. The first conference day in full swing, here are some highlights!
Contributor Day
A number of Level Level’ers joined various working groups yesterday during Contributing Day to improve the basics of WordPress. As WordPress is an open source software, the source code is free available for anyone to view, use, modify and distribute. So it is important that the basis of WordPress continues to evolve. The design team has been busy this year with optimisations for learn.wordpress.org.
A11Y Collective Stand
Level Level sponsors again this year with The A11Y Collective! At The A11Y Collective you can follow professional courses in the field of web accessibility. At the event you can find us at our own A11Y booth. In this cool booth we are happy to answer all visitors’ questions about web accessibility, but we also have all kinds of cool promotions.
Attendees test their knowledge with the Test-your-a11y-Knowledge Quiz] where we raffle access to The A11Y Collective Essentials among the entrants twice a day.
Due to the great success of last year, we have the Super Quick Scan again this year! Via the form on The A11Y Collective website, interested parties are told how the site scores in terms of accessibility and we share the quick wins and recommendations at the booth the same day and we are happy to discuss this with each other.
If you are not present at WordCamp but also want to have your website scanned for accessibility? No problem, you can! We’ll email your results when we get home!
New Course
Fresh from the press, we have the new masterclass course in our A11Y Collective course offering: “Advanced Accessible Components“. We are happy to tell you all about this course where we will go deeper into “Accessible Code” and “Advanced Accessible Components” at our booth. If you want to know more right now or if you are not attending WordCamp, be sure to check the website.
That’s all for now! We’ll keep you posted! ✌🏻