Join us for the last formal #WPLDN of 2025, where we’re diving into two essential topics that matter to every WordPress professional! This month, we’re exploring the accessibility landscape of HTML5 semantic elements and the often-overlooked business realities of freelancing.
Speakers
Graham is a Web Accessibility Consultant with his own company Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to help them improve the accessibility of their websites – testing the websites for accessibility, and advising the designers and developers on how to fix issues found. He has written detailed training courses on accessibility for developers which he presents on a regular basis.
He’s also a WordPress developer, and has built many accessible WordPress websites for clients – both large and small. He has contributed to the Make WordPress Accessible Team and has spoken on accessibility to many WordCamps and other WordPress meetups.
Outside of work you’re likely to find him playing his guitar, recording his next album or performing at local open mic evenings.
Rhys Wynne is a Welsh freelance WordPress developer living in a small village in the North West of England. Rhys co-organises the Manchester WordPress User Group, writes WordPress plugins and dips his toes into speaking. Rhys’ work tends to focus on performance, SEO and general back end WordPress and WooCommerce development for small and medium sized businesses and charities. Rhys also is passionate about a decentralised web and yearns to return to the days where everybody maintained their own blog. Especially if those blogs were WordPress sites. Away from WordPress, Rhys enjoys video games (both playing and making them), travelling, parkruns and playing cricket. You can find his WordPress services, newsletter and plugins at dwinrhys.com (Dwi’n rhymes with tween and Rhys rhymes with police) or find his less focussed ramblings and links to whatever social profiles are popular at rhys.wales.
