Accessibility

Date: August 11, 2020 (2pm ET)
Topic: If It’s Interactive, It Needs a Focus Style
Speaker: Eric Bailey, Designer + A11y Advocate at thoughtbot (https://twitter.com/ericwbailey)
YouTube recording: https://www.youtube.com/c/accessibilitytalks

Join Eric Bailey, Designer + A11y Advocate at thoughtbot for August's edition of A11yTalks.

Focus styles don't have to be ugly! Focus styles are an integral part of any mature design system.

Date: July 23, 2020 (1pm ET)
Topic: The Many Lives of a Notification
Speaker: Sarah Higley, Software Engineer at Microsoft (https://twitter.com/codingchaos)
YouTube recording: https://www.youtube.com/c/accessibilitytalks

Join Sarah Higley, Software Engineer at Microsoft for July's edition of A11yTalks.

This month's a11y office hours will focus on Olivero! If you want to have an impact on the future of Drupal's default theme accessibility, please join us.

Date: June 17, 2020 (2pm ET)
Topic: Accessible Game Design: It’s 2 point 1 fun!
Speaker: Cyndi Wiley, MFA, PhD (https://twitter.com/cyndiwiley)
YouTube recording: https://www.youtube.com/c/accessibilitytalks

Join Cyndi Wiley, MFA, PhD, Digital Accessibility Coordinator at Iowa State University for June's addition of A11yTalks.

Date: May 28, 2020 (2pm ET)
Topic: A11y Axioms - What are the basic truths about digital accessibility?
Speaker: Mike Gifford (https://twitter.com/mgifford)
YouTube recording: TBD

Join Mike Gifford, Founder & CEO of OpenConcept Consulting Inc., for this month's edition of Accessibility Talks.

Date: April 22, 2020 (3pm ET)
Topic: Digital communication in the age of Covid19
Speaker: Imelda March, MBA - Digital Designer and Social Media Manager (https://twitter.com/hcram1)
YouTube recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SSK6U1zil8

Join Imelda March, Digital Designer and Social Media Manager for this month's edition of Accessibility Talks.

Date: Feburary 20, 2020 (1pm ET)
Topic: Beyond the screen reader - Humanizing Accessibility
Speaker:Alanna Burke (https://twitter.com/aburke626)
YouTube recording: youtube.com/c/accessibilitytalks

Date: January 29, 2020 (12pm ET)
Topic: What's Dyslexia Got To Do With It!
Speaker: Jeannette Washington, M.Ed. (https://twitter.com/bearlyartic)
YouTube recording: youtube.com/c/accessibilitytalks

There has never been a better time to consider how your skills can be harnessed within the tech industry. The tech jobs of tomorrow require your narrative. After all, technology will only be as good as the people that it does the least for.

Hi,

I have a client that needs their Drupal 7 site %100 AA accessible by January 1st, 2020. Although I am a Drupal developer, I have been working primarily with Wordpress the last couple years and I am far from an expert in accessibility. Is there anyone in this group available to help out? Or, can anyone recommend someone?

Thanks in advance

J.P. Hayes

Date: October 29, 2019 (1pm ET)
Topic: Accessibility in the Modern Digital Agency
Speaker:
Sara Tabor, Director of Quality Assurance at CODE AND THEORY (https://twitter.com/OneHotProcessor)
Meeting link: https://bit.ly/October2019A11yTalks

Date: September 25, 2019 (1pm ET)
Topic: Digital Inclusion - What? Who? Why?
Speakers:
Liz Davis, User Experience Consultant at SPR (https://twitter.com/lizdavis__)
Justin Yarbrough, Accessibility Specialist at Rio Salado College (https://twitter.com/FatElvis04)
Nic Steenhout, Accessibility Testing Team Lead at Knowbility (https://twitter.com/vavroom)
Moderator:
Carie Fisher, Senior Accessibility Instructor and Developer at Deque (https://twitter.com/cariefisher)

It's essentially undocumented on the web and in Drupal that a content editor who uploads an image can make a required alt text produce an empty alt tag with "" in the alt text field.

I think it would be a much better editor experience to have a checkbox: "This image is decorative and provides no information not already present in text."

This would then produce the empty alt tag for them.

It would also help people learn about the purpose of alt text (and maybe make us think more about using images that do provide some value).

Thursday, September 5, 2019, 1 - 2 PM EDT

Everyone worries about accessibility but somehow we’re always remediating." What steps can you help your organization begin to take that will yield immediate, effective, and consistent policies? Join us as we talk about how to turn accessibility remediation into digital inclusion and strengthen customer experience for everyone.

This 60-minute conversation focuses on making key strategic adjustments in your digital practice that will create measurable improvements.

Date: August 20, 2019 (12pm ET)
Topic: Testing Web Accessibility
Speaker: Adrián Bolonio, Frontend developer and Web Team Lead (https://twitter.com/bolonio)
YouTube recording: https://youtu.be/Nq6UhL_QvZk

Panelist: Wilco Fiers (https://twitter.com/wilcofiers)
Panelist: Jesse Beach (https://twitter.com/jessebeach)
Panelist: Marcy Sutton (https://twitter.com/marcysutton)
Panelist: Almero Steyn (https://twitter.com/kryptos_rsa)
Moderator: Caitlin Cashin (https://twitter.com/caitlinthefirst)
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/Raju4FCUIIk

Date: June 26, 2019 (12pm ET)
Topic: What's Dyslexia Got To Do With It!
Speaker: Jeannette Washington, M.Ed. (https://twitter.com/bearlyartic)
YouTube recording: https://youtu.be/Oe8Zv2e5yXI

Date: May 9, 2019 (6pm ET)
Topic: CMS vs. Headless CMS A11y Throwdown
Panelist: Rachel Cherry (https://twitter.com/bamadesigner)
Panelist: Preston So (https://twitter.com/prestonso)
Panelist: Mike Gifford (https://twitter.com/mgifford)
Panelist: Carie Fisher (https://twitter.com/cariefisher)
Moderator: Caitlin Cashin (https://twitter.com/caitlinthefirst)
YouTube recording: https://youtu.be/8lrmC8ZIGPY

Date: May 21, 2019 (1pm ET)
Topic: Time Control in Web Accessibility
Speaker: Sergei Kriger (https://twitter.com/_sergeikriger)
YouTube recording: https://youtu.be/LAon5dXO8NY

The time of plain web pages and dial-up internet is gone forever. We live in a world where our devices are able to simultaneously operate with tons of data. Tweets, notifications, alert messages, progress bars — all these components appear on the web page asynchronously, which makes the user experience more convenient than ever.

Date: April 16, 2019 (1pm ET)
Topic: Accessibility Newbie to Ninja: 10 Steps
Speaker: Abby Kingman (https://twitter.com/A11yAbby)
YouTube recording: https://youtu.be/fYfLz0CQAQk

Itching to get started or even level up your web accessibility skills? Want to contribute by making the web a more inclusive experience for all? Then, you’ve come to the right place! From beginner to expert developers and designers, there’s something for everyone in this summit.

We’re pulling out all the stops by bringing notable experts in the field to share their experiences, including:

Mike Gifford
will discuss his experience and case study making CNIB Foundation’s (a nonprofit organization driven to change what it is to be blind today) site extensively
accessible

Gian Wild