{"id":2999,"date":"2015-08-14T09:55:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T04:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.pune.wordcamp.org\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2015-08-14T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T04:25:52","slug":"raghavendra-peri-is-blind-but-he-will-help-you-see-the-merits-of-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/raghavendra-peri-is-blind-but-he-will-help-you-see-the-merits-of-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Raghavendra Peri is blind but he will help you see the merits of accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-200 photo alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fea0c4976b6a0ff2dfda99f1937465e?s=200&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/> Raghavendra Peri is someone who works on accessibility day in and day out. His opinions on accessibility are all the more important since it comes from his own experience. Which is why he&#8217;s the most appropriate person to conduct <strong>An Experiential Workshop on Accessibility with WordPress<\/strong>. You can experience websites\u00a0the way a lot of people do and see why it&#8217;s awesome when websites are accessible, first hand!<\/p>\n<p>Raghavendra is a Digital Accessibility Consultant at Deque<br \/>\nSystems. He is also a Digital Marketing Strategist, Speaker, and<br \/>\nBlogger &amp; Entrepreneur. At the age of 8, he was diagnosed with a<br \/>\ndegenerative eye condition called Retinitis pigmentosa that rendered<br \/>\nhim totally blind at the age of 26. But that did not stop him from<br \/>\npursuing his dreams. He keeps himself actively involved in the<br \/>\ntechnology space &amp; uses various assistive technologies in his day to<br \/>\nday life.<\/p>\n<p>He loves travelling, listening to audio books, partying, socializing,<br \/>\ntrekking, running and giving motivational talks at schools &amp; colleges,<br \/>\napart from his day today work.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently pursuing his bucket list of <em>101 things to do before I die<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EHXfzNHTZc\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/raghava.in\/101-things-to-do-before-i-die\/\">101 things to do before I die<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;101 things to do before I die&#8221; &#8212; Raghava&#039;s Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/raghava.in\/101-things-to-do-before-i-die\/embed\/#?secret=Z5M8sBHnY1#?secret=EHXfzNHTZc\" data-secret=\"EHXfzNHTZc\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raghavendra Peri is someone who works on accessibility day in and day out. His opinions on accessibility are all the more important since it comes from his own experience. Which is why he&#8217;s the most appropriate person to conduct An Experiential Workshop on Accessibility with WordPress. You can experience websites\u00a0the way a lot of people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/raghavendra-peri-is-blind-but-he-will-help-you-see-the-merits-of-accessibility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raghavendra Peri is blind but he will help you see the merits of accessibility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3953804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers","category-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67dsD-Mn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3953804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}