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SUMMARY:WPLDN - July 2026: Our 150th Event! Accessibility\, Identity & the 
 Agentic Web
LOCATION:The Bridge 73 – 81 Southwark Bridge Road London SE1 0NQ
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 28% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nJoin us for the 150th WPLDN event. One hundred and fifty 
 evenings of free\, community-driven WordPress talks feels worth marking\, 
 so we're doing it with three sessions rather than the usual two. We're cov
 ering whether WordPress dropdown menus can ever be truly accessible\, the 
 business case for understanding why you do what you do\, and what happens 
 to your site when the visitor is an AI agent rather than a person.\n\n📅 Da
 te: July 30\, 2026\n⏰ Time: 6:30 PM BST (doors open at 6:00 PM)\n🎟️ Cost: 
 Free (Registration required)\n\nSession 1: WordPress dropdown menus - Can 
 they be truly accessible?\n\n🤝 Speaker: Graham Armfield (Coolfields Consul
 ting)\nIf your site has more than a handful of pages\, you're almost certa
 inly using dropdown or flyout submenus. WordPress themes have offered a wh
 ole range of approaches over the years\, but how many of them actually wor
 k for everyone? Graham will walk through the patterns commonly found in Wo
 rdPress themes and assess the level of accessibility each one provides. Ex
 pect a clear-eyed look at what passes\, what doesn't\, and what to do abou
 t it.\n\nGraham is a Web Accessibility Consultant and the founder of Coolf
 ields Consulting\, where he tests websites for accessibility and advises d
 esigners and developers on fixing the issues found. He writes and delivers
  detailed accessibility training for developers\, is a WordPress developer
  who has built accessible sites for clients large and small\, and has cont
 ributed to the Make WordPress Accessible Team. He's spoken on accessibilit
 y at WordCamps and WordPress events for years\, and he's been part of the 
 WPLDN story for a good chunk of those 150 events. Outside of work\, you'll
  likely find him playing guitar\, recording his next album\, or at a local
  open mic night.\n\nSession 2: Owning Your Why: The Only Constant in a Wor
 ld of Change\n🤝 Speaker: Raquel Manriquez (PressConf)\nThe only constant i
 n your business isn't the strategy\, the stack\, or the team. It's the "wh
 y" underneath them. In this candid session\, Raquel starts with the questi
 on most of us avoid: Who am I actually? and moves to the business case for
  answering it. The boundaries that hold because you know what you're prote
 cting. The decisions that come quickly because you're not weighing up othe
 r people's opinions of you. The steadiness that comes from being someone\,
  rather than just doing things.\n\nRaquel is the founder of WonderlandCuri
 ous\, a tech event consultancy focused on innovative\, people-first experi
 ences. A longtime leader in the WordPress ecosystem\, she founded the WooC
 ommerce agency Mode Effect and led it for a decade before a successful exi
 t in 2020. Today she channels that community experience into PressConf\, a
  conference built around candid\, unrecorded conversations among the leade
 rs shaping the WordPress economy. A perpetually curious soul\, Raquel beli
 eves deeply in the power of meaningful connection wherever her feet land. 
 Outside of work\, she's a recent graduate of full-time parenthood and enjo
 ys music\, the outdoors\, wanderlust\, and time with her big\, Indigenous 
 family.\n\nSession 3: Preparing WordPress sites for the agentic web\n🤝 Spe
 aker: Daphne Monro (Hosting.com)\nAI agents don't just rank pages. They ca
 ll APIs\, parse structured data\, evaluate trust signals\, and increasingl
 y complete actions on behalf of users. Daphne explores what that shift mea
 ns for WordPress: exposing clean\, structured data through schema and feed
 s\, building product and shopping setups that are machine-readable\, keepi
 ng APIs and endpoints stable and well documented\, and preparing content f
 or retrieval\, summarisation\, and transaction. The focus is on building s
 ites that agents can confidently interpret\, cite\, and act through\, not 
 just crawl\, and positioning brands for a web where software is often the 
 primary interface.\n\nDaphne is Head of Website and Content at Hosting.com
 \, where she leads website performance\, SEO\, CRO\, migrations\, and glob
 al content strategy across multiple brands. She specialises in large-scale
  domain migrations\, technical SEO
URL:https://www.meetup.com/london-wordpress/events/315399417/
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