On Tuesday October 6 2020 at 7pm EDT (23:00 UTC) the Accessibility NYC Meetup (A11yNYC) hosts an online meetup ‘5 Things I Learned from the Accessibility Community‘. Award winning freelance web developer and accessibility specialist Marcy Sutton will present the fruits of her years of experience in the field. The meetup will be webcast live … Read more
On Thursday June 18 2020 at 7pm EDT (23:00 UTC) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Ideas for A11y Programs in XR Tech Companies‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Various community-driven efforts are actively working to define accessibility user requirements, practices, and guidance for XR technologies and experiences. Presenter Bill Curtis-Davidson will outline how XR technology companies can … Read more
Today, Tuesday January 7 2020 at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) the AccessibiltyNYC Meetup hosts EdTech and HigherEd: Considerations for Digital Accessibility at Thoughtbot in NYC. Presenter Zarina Mustapha is a Senior Front-end Developer and Accessibility Lead at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Columbia University. LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/edtech YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/Y7c1JSpQxHs TWITTER: #highered @a11ynyc
Today, Thursday May 17 2018, is the 7th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) access/inclusion and people with different disabilities. The target audience of GAAD is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund … Read more
The 14th weekly Internet Society Disabled and Special Needs Chapter hangout will this week be at 1pm ET on Wednesday Aug 16 2017. Please join and share your #a11y interests. This week will be an open discussion, but will include aphasia, the subject of last week’s a11yNYC presentation. What: Internet Society Disabled & Special Needs … Read more