Your Team
Although it is possible for one person to wear many hats, we believe a team approach can offer you the best in capabilities, experience, expertise and results.
Sumner M. Davenport & Associates, LLC is a team of professionals and specialists working together to deliver Web Accessibility education, training and services. Your team can work with you to design a website with accessibility baked in from the start or remediate one that needs help. Each team member brings specialized skills to the table so you get the best we can offer.
With over 33% of websites being built on WordPress, we specialize Web Accessibility in sites built on WordPress. As a team, we build, maintain, evaluate and remediate WordPress websites to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) success criterion.
Sumner and various team members are active in accessibility and legal conferences and educational venues, including WordCamp and local WordPress groups where they regularly educate on topics related to conformance issues for WordPress websites.
Sumner Davenport has been building websites and working with digital marketing venues since 1998 and upon being introduced to WordPress in 2008 she focused her efforts on this versatile CMS platform.
Over the years she has actively recruited professionals in various specialties of digital design and technical functionality to become part of her team. Currently this team consists of members from around the globe working together to achieve the best solutions for each client.
Sumner is the Founder of educational venues wA11y4all which provides presentations to business groups on the benefits, importance and overall value of having an accessible website and wA11yWP through which she conducts ongoing educational events for web designers who use WordPress, so they can better understand the ease and value of inclusive design and accessibility. She also teaches designers and Do-it-Yourselfers who use WordPress the steps to remediating a WordPress site.
Sumner is actively involved with several charitable organizations who are committed to our future. Causes Sumner supports includes: (all links open in new windows) Knowbility, Ability First, CASA, The Wellness Community, Pearls of Hope ®, PetOrphans, Special Olympics Southern California, Prevent Child Abuse, Stop Puppy Mills. As a best selling author she donates proceeds from her books to selected charities. She is owned by a rescue dog named Tigger and his rescue cats, Merlin and Lily.
















Sumner Davenport and members of her team actively volunteer with conferences and events to emphasize inclusion and Accessibility.
EVENTS
UNDER CONSTRUCTION – PENDING UPDATES
Recent volunteer, WordCamp LAX Speaker Wrangler
Current: Founder, Sponsor & Speaker Wrangler
Presentation: A (Word)Pressing Need: Accessibility for All
Presentation: Web Accessibility – Compliance, Trolls and Traps
Presentation: How to Remediate a WordPress Site
AccessU Presentation, Accessibility WordPress
A Future Date event, Planning and Speaker Committee (external site)
Volunteer, Speaker Wrangler WordCamp Clarita 2020
Web Accessibility Planning for 2023
Additional speaking events:
Remediation of a WordPress Site for Web Accessibility
Why Web Accessibility is Profitable for Business
Step by Step Remediation of a Website for Accessibility
The High Value of an Accessible Website, Small Business Owners Roundtable
How Web Designers Profit from Creating Accessible Websites
Why Web Accessibility is Profitable for Business
Testing and Remediating a WordPress Site
Previous Events:
TechAccessOK , Topic: The Ease of Designing Accessible Sites on WordPress
WIN Networking, Topic: Accessibility is Good For Business
Sponsored by WIN Networking
John Slatin AccessU , Topic: The Ease of Accessibility and WordPress Design (External site)
Helpful Solutions to Make Your Site Compliant (bring your laptop).
Women Networking – Making A Difference, Topic: The High Value of an Accessible Website
PREVIOUS SPEAKING VENUES
West Valley WordPress Meetup
Encino Lawyers Association (ELA)
California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA)
The Lorraine Jackson Foundation, Pearls of Hope®
California Lutheran University – Options Day for Women
Conejo/Las Virgenes Future Foundation
Women in Business
Women’s Referral Service (WRS)
WordCamp
INTERVIEWS
Blog-Spot Radio
Aging Info Radio
Power Your Life Radio Show
Thousand Oaks Star
LA Times
PRESENTATION TOPICS
The High Value of an Accessible Website
Separate Yourself From the Competition with Inclusive Design
The Ease of WordPress Design and Accessibility
Hands on – Steps in Making Your Site Compliant
Websites and Legal Compliance
Don’t Feed the Trolls
Mindful Meditation
WEBINARS
The High Value of an Accessible Website
Separate Yourself From the Competition with Inclusive Design
The Ease of Accessibility and WordPress