{"id":4504,"date":"2025-07-16T07:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=4504"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:40:56","slug":"sandi-gauder","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/speaker\/sandi-gauder\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandi Gauder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-style-default speaker-highlight-column is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b9a46375 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group has-custom-grey-faint-background-color has-background wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7a30299c wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"min-height:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-container-content-b1208fed\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" data-attachment-id=\"4654\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/speaker\/sandi-gauder\/attachment\/1632844411350\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/1632844411350.jpeg?fit=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sandi Gauder\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sandi Gauder&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sandi Gauder&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/1632844411350.jpeg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/1632844411350.jpeg?fit=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/1632844411350.jpeg?resize=800%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sandi Gauder\" class=\"wp-image-4654\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3\/4;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/1632844411350.jpeg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/1632844411350.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/1632844411350.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/07\/1632844411350.jpeg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group has-custom-grey-faint-background-color has-background wp-container-content-8f85718f has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Web accessibility specialist Sandi Gauder is the co-owner of CMS Web Solutions, which for years has been helping all kinds of organizations build better, more inclusive websites.&nbsp;Want to make your site more usable for everyone? In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/session\/audit-and-remediate-a-wordpress-site-for-accessibility\/\" data-type=\"wcb_session\" data-id=\"3095\">Audit and remediate a WordPress site for accessibility<\/a><\/strong>, she and Jennifer Curry Jahnke will take you through some simple, hands-on steps to find accessibility issues and fix them fast\u2014without expensive tools, special skills or a lot of extra effort. Because as you\u2019ll see, an accessible site is more usable for everyone who stops by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-accent-1-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-091b0950 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:10px;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"sessions\">Check out Sandi&#8217;s Session<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;\" class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-speaker-sessions\"><li><p><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/session\/audit-and-remediate-a-wordpress-site-for-accessibility\/\">Audit and remediate a WordPress site for accessibility.<\/a><\/p><p class=\"wordcamp-speaker-sessions__session-info\">October 15, 2025 at 1:00 pm in <span class=\"wordcamp-speaker-sessions__track slug-track-1\">Track 1<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sandi on the Socials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Website:<a href=\"https:\/\/cmswebsolutions.com\"> cmswebsolutions.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LinkedIn:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/SandiGauder\/\"> linkedin.com\/in\/SandiGauder<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Give Sandi a follow, and don\u2019t miss his\/her\/their talk this October in Ottawa! \ud83c\udf41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And now for something a little Canadian \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I call <strong>Kawartha Lakes<\/strong> home, wear <strong>red shoes<\/strong> more often than not, listen to <strong>Danny Michel<\/strong> on repeat, and get <strong>life advice from my cats<\/strong>\u2014usually over a <strong>butter tart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandi is a web accessibility expert with 15+ years\u2019 experience helping teams build accessible sites and meet AODA guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3657560,"featured_media":4654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"speaker-series","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[122],"class_list":["post-4504","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","wcb_speaker_group-first-round"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=24&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=48&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=128&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=256&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=512&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3657560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6970,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4504\/revisions\/6970"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/3095?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}