Posted by deviantintegral on December 12, 2010 at 1:17am
Start:
2010-12-16 19:00 - 21:05 America/Toronto Event type:
User group meeting
The presentation will provide an overview of legislation in Ontario and Canada; web-accessibility guidelines, standards, resources, tools and tips; and Drupal and web accessibility.
This session will be presented by Eva Grabinski from the University of Waterloo and Everett Zufelt, accessibility maintainer for Drupal 7. For anyone interested in learning more about online accessibility, this presentation promises to be one not to miss!
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Everett won't be there AFAIK
But Eva's ready to roll.
I was planning to come
I was planning to come tonight, but the weather's too bad (being an Englishman I can handle rain and fog, but lots of snow is a bit tough), I'm a ill too and I doubt anyone wants my germs.
It really sucks, since this promises to be a really informative session. :(
Thanks everyone
Thank you to everyone who trekked out in the snowy weather to attend this session. It was a pleasure to share knowledge on web accesssibility.
Slides? And another Accessibility presentation in Waterloo
Hi Eva: Great presentation! Can you post the slides here? I didn't write down the many URLs of the validation sites, and could sure use a reminder...
Also, the uxWaterloo has another Web Accessibility presentation in Waterloo on Thursday, 23 January at 5:30pm (just before the Drupal meeting!). That's the third WA presentation in two months!
https://uxgroup.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/january-event-practical-advice-...
--Bob.
Short URL for uxWaterloo site
Seems the e-mail version of my earlier message truncated the URL. So here it is again in shortened form, with a short blurb from the site itself:
http://ur1.ca/2suom
January event: Practical Advice for Accessible Design
by Mark Connolly on December 30, 2010
One of the most challenging design spaces in software is accessibility. Users with disabilities face challenges reading, navigating, and interacting with the modern Web applications. Even with the help of assistive technology (AT) they face renewed discrimination by being denied the same experience in social networking, video sharing, and other applications that are critical to our web citizenship.
As the population ages, access legislation strengthens throughout North America, and AT users become more vocal, accessibility considerations become harder to ignore. For user experience and design professionals, this should be a call to action! The reality is designing accessible applications is foreign to many of us, highly nuanced, technically challenging, and difficult to assess/critique.
This presentation by Ali Ghassemi and Dariusz Grabka of Desire2Learn will seek to make accessibility a lot less scary, and introduce you to some best practices that the company has developed for designing accessible web software.
This month’s event is being held at the office of Desire2Learn, located in suite 400 at 151 Charles Street West, in Kitchener. That’s the digital Hub in the old Lang Tannery building — use the entrance beside Balzac’s Coffee. There’s parking off Charles Street.
I thought you could attach
I thought you could attach files to comments, but looks like you can't. I've attached the slides to the post at the top.