Accessibility

Date: On December 15th, 12PM (ET)
Topic: Why We Need More Accessibility Designers
Speaker: Anna E Cook
YouTube live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKPYvRIV8jc

Join Anna E Cook for December's edition of A11yTalks: Why We Need More Accessibility Designers

Date: On December 15th, 12PM (ET)
Topic: Why We Need More Accessibility Designers
Speaker: Anna E Cook
YouTube live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKPYvRIV8jc

Join Anna E Cook for December's edition of A11yTalks: Why We Need More Accessibility Designers

Date: On October 27th, 8pm (ET)
Topic: Bridging the A11y Gap: Mental Health & the Next Generation
Speaker:Albert Kim, founder of Accessibility NextGen
YouTube live link: https://youtu.be/7iSOKXfujvU

Join Albert Kim for October's edition of A11yTalks: Bridging the A11y Gap: Mental Health & the Next Generation

Date: On September 21st, 1pm (ET)
Topic: Whole-to-Part versus Part-to-Whole: How Sighted and Blind Web Navigation Differs
Speaker:Michele A. Williams, PhD of M.A.W. Consulting, LLC, Making Accessibility Work
YouTube live link: https://youtu.be/MwfyJzB3OGM

Join Michele A. Williams for September's edition of A11yTalks: Whole-to-Part versus Part-to-Whole: How Sighted and Blind Web Navigation Differs

Date: August 11, 1pm (ET)
Topic: 'Father Hen's House' Project
Speaker:Father Hen
YouTube live link: https://youtu.be/FWAdRiQVzF0
Join Father Hen for August's edition of A11yTalks: 'Father Hen's House' Project

Father Hen's House is a newly started Youtube series project where Father Hen addresses topics through the lens of disability, sexuality, & gender mainly.

Date: July 28, 3pm (ET)
Topic: The Fatal Flaw of Overlays
Speaker: Shell Little, AVP - Inclusive Design Lead, Wells Fargo DS4B
YouTube live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6VmSjEIiks

Join Shell Little, AVP - Inclusive Design Lead, Wells Fargo DS4B for July's edition of A11yTalks: The Fatal Flaw of Overlays

Date: June 17th, 10am (ET)
Topic: PDF Pitfalls and How to Meet PDF/UA
Speaker: Helen Burge, Senior Accessibility & Usability Consultant at AbilityNet
YouTube live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXuJ0XkWp1E

Join Helen Burge, Senior Accessibility & Usability Consultant at AbilityNet for June's edition of A11yTalks: PDF Pitfalls and How to Meet PDF/UA

Drupal Diversity & Inclusion advocates through SFDUG are hosting a Speaker Diversity Workshop to help speakers from underrepresented groups prepare to speak at conferences. This will in turn help local meetups, Drupal Camps, and even DrupalCons develop a more diverse speaker roster. The workshop helps folks bust through their impostor syndrome and develop a topic, title, pitch, bio, and outline. #DrupalSpeakerDiversity

The workshop covers:
- Impostor syndrome
- Finding a topic
- Better speaker tips
- Writing a great pitch
- Creating an outline
- Creating great slides

Date: May 11, 2021 (12:00pm ET)
Topic: Broke with Accessible Taste:
The Economics of Access
Speaker: Crystal Preston-Watson, Quality & Accessibility
Engineer at Salesforce

YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFkLNvv5M9Y

Join us in May for another edition of A11yTalks. Crystal Preston-Watson, Quality & Accessibility Engineer at Salesforce, will present Broke with Accessible Taste - The Economics of Access.

Date: April 22, 2021 (12:00pm ET)
Topic: Making a COVID Site Accessible: From Tweet to Action
Speaker: Jill Wolters, Web Standards Program Manager
YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jox8utEyUQ0

Join us in April for another edition of A11yTalks. Jill Wolters, Web Standards Program Manager will present Making a COVID Site Accessible: From Tweet to Action.

Date: March 17, 2021 (1:00pm ET)
Topic: Accessibility is Hard, and Other Myths
Speaker: Devon Persing, Technical Program Manager, Accessibility at Shopify
YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jho7wC1t6c

Join us in March for another edition of A11yTalks. Devon Persing, Technical Program Manager, Accessibility at Shopify will present Accessibility is Hard, and Other Myths.

Is there a standard for keyboard activation of drop-down menus? We are using multiple drop-down menus from various sources which behave differently from one another. Technically speaking, each individual jump menu is WCAG 2.0 AA accessible because it can be navigated keyboard-only, but the technique for opening the menu varies from menu to menu.

I can't imagine that to be a pleasant experience for site visitors, but I also can't seem to find documentation from an authoritative source for a standard menu-open behavior that could (theoretically) be applied across all drop-down menus.

Is there a standard? Where is it documented? If there is no standard, is there a way to force a single behavior across incompatible drop-downs or else enable forgiving actions? If not, is there a reasonable way, e.g., through appropriate ARIA labeling, to communicate the correct way to access a particular drop-down menu without forcing the site visitor to figure it out for themselves?

I despair of keyboard-only visitors being able to achieve mastery of drop-down menus on websites.

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Date: Feb 23, 2021 (1:00pm ET)
Topic: Automated Accessibility Testing in JavaScript Frameworks
Speaker: Mark Steadman, Accessibility Developer Consultant at Deque
YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46rFCwYn27Y

Join us in February for another edition of A11yTalks. Mark Steadman, Accessibility Developer Consultant at Deque will present Automated Accessibility Testing in JavaScript Frameworks.

Date: Feb 3, 2021 (3:00pm ET)
Topic: Introduction to Screen Readers
Speaker: Tim Harshbarger, Sr. Accessibility Consultant & Trainer at Deque
YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOUeNj7Pnc4

We had to postpone our January meetup so we now have a bonus beginning of the month meetup!!

Tim Harshbarger, Sr. Accessibility Consultant & Trainer at Deque joins us for the first edition of A11yTalks for 2021: Introduction to Screen Readers.

Date: January 27, 2021 (12:00pm ET)
Topic: UX vs. Accessibility: a visual and non-visual perspective
Speakers:
Eileen Becker-Rendano, CPACC - Accessibility & QA Engineer at New York State ITS
Jason Cortes, UXC - Applications Developer at New York State ITS
YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/pOUeNj7Pnc4

Eileen Becker-Rendano, CPACC - Accessibility & QA Engineer at New York State ITS and Jason Cortes, UXC - Applications Developer at New York State ITS, for January's edition of A11yTalks.

Date: December 9, 2020 (12:00pm ET)
Topic: Accessible Marketing Practices
Speaker: Donna Bungard, Sr. Project Manager at Kanopi Studios
(https://twitter.com/dbungard)
YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/YVZP2YGIhn4

Donna Bungard, Sr. Project Manager at Kanopi Studios, for December's edition of A11yTalks.

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Date: November 18, 2020 (1:00pm ET)
Topic: User Trust: The Critical Metric
Speaker: Paul Grenier, Front-end and Node.js developer (https://twitter.com/AutoSponge)
YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOn3pNK59iM&feature=youtu.be

Join Paul Grenier, Front-end and Node.js developer, for November's edition of A11yTalks.

Date: October 15, 2020 (12pm ET)
Topic: Leveraging Accessibility & Usability to Serve Truly Diverse Audiences
Speakers:
Tearyne Almendariz - Front-end Developer @ Lullabot (Twitter: TearyneG and LinkedIn: tearyne)
Kat Shaw - Sr. Front-end Developer @ Lullabot (Twitter/LinkedIn: katannshaw)
YouTube recording: https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2020-OCT

Date: September 24, 2020 (2:30pm ET)
Topic: Screen Readers and CSS: Are We Going Out of Style (and into Content)?
Speaker: CB Averitt, CPWA - Principal Accessibility Consultant at Deque Systems (https://twitter.com/dive4cb)
YouTube recording: https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2020-SEP

Join CB Averitt, CPWA - Principal Accessibility Consultant at Deque Systems for September's edition of A11yTalks.