Accessibility

A11yTalks - Improving Accessibility through Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs)

A11yTalks - Improving Accessibility through Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs)

Coming in May: May 15th @ 12pm ET: Blake Bertuccelli - Open Source Accessibility NOW!

Open Source means nothing to the larger accessibility community. That is a problem. Proprietary solutions limit access to vital accessibility tools. This presentation outlines existing Open Source accessibility solutions while asking the question "Why aren’t there more Open Source a11y tools?" The presentation is meant to be both a survey of existing solutions and a call to action for new Open Source solutions. Web Accessibility stagnates without more Open Source A11y tools.

Join Meggan from Design de Plume and discover how Indigenous accessibility diverges from general compliance principles. She’ll delve into cultural considerations and Indigenous perspectives that foster inclusive solutions and help you gain valuable insight from her agency experience. Learn how to meaningfully apply accessibility standards for Indigenous audiences, while creating engaging projects that resonate. Challenge norms, embrace inclusivity, and focus on creating positive change through this insightful presentation.

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"Accessibility First Thinking for Developers" with GrahamTheDev an Accessibility Consultant.

What if you started every discussion with "how do we make this accessible". What if every decision for a product was thought of from a point of maximum inclusion? In this talk, we will show how leading with accessibility can lead to better UX, quicker development and ultimately, more profitability for a company.

Mark your calendar: June 14th, 12PM (ET)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_sD9-BQAs

I am working on a Drupal 10 site with a Bootstrap 5 (Barrio) custom theme. I have some older followers who would find it easier to view the site if the type was larger. I want to provide a large-print option for them. Is there a way (such as a user-selectable option) to accomplish this through the theme?

It looks as if "Userway" is an option, but it is expensive and offers several features that I don't need.

Date: 12 April, 1PM (ET)
Topic: Web Accessibility in Action: Q&A with Agency Experts
Speaker: Hidde de Vries, Front-end and Accessibility Specialist.
YouTube live link: TBA

Date: March 8, 2023, 11am ET
Topic: Next generation of automated testing
Speaker: Cezary Tomczyk
Website: https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2023-MAR/

Join Cezary Tomczyk, software engineer, manager, mentor, and music composer, for the March 2023 edition of A11yTalks.

Accessibility Talks: Next generation of automated testing.

Date: 28 Feb 2023 at 13:30 EST
Topic: Web Accessibility in Action: Q&A with Agency Experts
Speaker: Exygy and Evolving Web
YouTube live link: https://youtube.com/live/WlNchpHa_ew

A11yTalks - Web Accessibility in Action: Q&A with Agency Experts

Date: Jan 12, 2023, 12pm ET
Topic: Redesigning for Cognitive Ease
Speaker: Alyssa Panetta
YouTube live link: https://youtu.be/BXeixHLjZwM

Join Alyssa Panetta, Web Designer/Developer for University Libraries, University at Albany, for the January 2023 edition of A11yTalks.

After all the WCAG standards are met, how accessible is your site for users with cognitive disabilities? How can you tell? What does that mean? Where would you even start?

Date: Dec 14, 2022, 2pm ET
Topic: Accessibility with dark light theme
Speaker: Sibu Stephen
YouTube live link: https://youtu.be/bVZ1hHctYtE

Join Sibu Stephen, UI consultant at Digital Polygon, for the December edition of A11yTalks

Date: Nov 16, 2022, 2pm ET
Topic: Designing ‘With’ & Not ‘For,’ rootid’s Culture Shifting Process
Speaker: Sia Magadan (she/ella) and Val Neumark (she/they) of Rootid
YouTube live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcK0ZtWQQQg

Join Sia Magadan and Val Neumark of Rootid for the November edition of A11yTalks

Date: October 5, 2:45PM (ET)
Topic: Cognitive Overlords
Speaker: Alex Tait (she/her)
YouTube live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcK0ZtWQQQg

Join Alex Tait for the October edition of A11yTalks

Date: Sept 7, 1PM (ET)
Topic: Making a strong case for accessibility
Speaker: Todd Libby
YouTube live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7FI3XB4MpM

Join Todd Libby for the September edition of A11yTalks:

Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in my career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for disabled users from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond.

Does anyone know whether there's any reason why, when "group by" is used in a view, the headings for the at least the first grouping are formatted as h3?

This can cause accessibility issues, because the page the view is on may not have any h2 headings or the view itself may be under a h3 heading.

An issue was created on d.o more than 10 years ago, but the only solution seems to be overriding templates.

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/1383696

I didn't see any explanation there for why Views still does this.

Date: June 15, 2PM (ET)
Topic: How to make / improvise your own accessibility and adaptive devices and mods. Crash Course.
Speaker: Aaron Esau, Disability Advocate/ Maker
YouTube live link: https://youtu.be/TYe23y9YEL8

Join Aaron Esau for the June edition of A11yTalks:

How to make / improvise your own accessibility and adaptive devices and mods. Crash Course.

Date: April 14th, 1PM (ET)
Topic: Practical Styling in Forced Colors Mode
Speaker: Mike Herchel
YouTube live link: TBA

Join Mike Herchel for the April edition of A11yTalks:

Practical Styling in Forced Colors Mode

Date: March 23, 12 PM (ET)
Topic: From Disabled Veteran to Full-Stack Drupal Developer
Speaker: Edmund Dunn, Full Stack Developer at Aten Design
YouTube live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP1p_U_oP2M

Join Edmund Dunn for the March edition of A11yTalks:

From Disabled Veteran to Full-Stack Drupal Developer

Date: On February 22, 2PM (ET)
Topic: Introducing ARRM: Assigning Ownership to Get Things Done
Speaker: Jen Chadwick, Bill Tyler, Sean Kelly
YouTube live link:https://youtu.be/nTVl5RDL1wU

Join Jen Chadwick, Bill Tyler, and Sean Kelly for the February edition of A11yTalks:

Introducing ARRM: Assigning Ownership to Get Things Done

Date: On January 12th, 4PM (ET)
Topic: Fostering Inclusion in Technology
Speaker: Nikki Flores
YouTube live link: https://youtu.be/l9L6MG70PeI

Join Nikki Flores for the January edition of A11yTalks: Fostering Inclusion in Technology