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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
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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
Read moreA11yTalks - Bridging the A11y Gap: Mental Health & the Next Generation
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
Read moreWhole-to-Part versus Part-to-Whole: How Sighted and Blind Web Navigation Differs
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
Read moreA11Y Talks - 'Father Hen's House' Project
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.
Read moreA11yTalks - The Fatal Flaw of Overlays
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
Read moreA11yTalks - PDF Pitfalls and How to Meet PDF/UA
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
Read moreSpeaker Diversity Workshop through SFDUG and friends
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
A11yTalks - Broke with Accessible Taste - The Economics of Access
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.
Read moreA11yTalks - Making a COVID-19 Site Accessible: From Tweet to Action
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.
Read moreA11yTalks - Accessibility is Hard, and Other Myths
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.
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Inconsistent drop-menu activation
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.
Details follow:
Read moreAutomated Accessibility Testing in JavaScript Frameworks
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.
Read moreIntroduction to Screen Readers
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.
Read moreA11y Talks (January 2021): UX vs. Accessibility: a visual and non-visual perspective
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.
Read moreA11y Talks (December 2020): Accessible Marketing Practices
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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Read moreA11y Talks (November 2020): User Trust: The Critical Metric
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.
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A11y Talks (October 2020): Leveraging Accessibility & Usability to Serve Truly Diverse Audiences
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
A11y Talks (September 2020): Screen Readers and CSS: Are We Going Out of Style (and into Content)?
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.
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