Drupal Users Group Meeting

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.

These meetups are for ALL levels of Drupal users, from those of us who have only briefly heard of it but are interested in learning more to those of us who know a lot of but are always looking to learn more! Come get involved!

Check out the official Portland Drupal Users Group site at http://groups.drupal.org/portland . The site has more information about local Drupal meetups, events and opportunities.

Following the meetup, we will head to a nearby pub for socializing.