February DUG @ ThinkShout - Accessibility

On the second Wednesday of every month at a rotating location, come to the Portland Drupal User Group meetup to talk about Drupal and hear a few presentations.

This month we have two speakers, the subject is accessibility.

Jules Khong is a Software Engineer and the Accessibility Lead at ThinkShout, and she will be covering A11Y from the Project Manager's and Developer's perspective: what is WCAG 2.0/2.1 and what does it mean for my website; how to use tools you already have to test accessibility including VoiceOver and keyboard navigation.

Alex Brandt is the Marketing Manager at Palantir.net, and she will be giving a preview of her talk at DrupalCon Seattle: "Keeping That New Car Smell: Tips for Publishing Accessible Content". The talk will include: examples of how users might be consuming your content and what that means for you as a marketer; tips for writing descriptive text, maintaining proper hierarchy on a page, and utilizing Drupal 8’s accessibility parameters; and tools you can use to continuously monitor how your content measures up to accessibility standards.

For future months, we're looking for people to give talks. They could be 5 minutes or as long as about 45 minutes. If you're interested, find me on Slack or talk to me in person tomorrow.

Our icebreaker question of the day will be "Do you or someone you know use accessibility features on websites or devices? What have you seen that works for them? What anti-patterns have you observed?"

Pizza and socializing starting at 6pm followed by presentations starting at 6:30 pm. Following the meetup, we will head to a nearby pub for socializing.