ISABELA PRESEDO-FLOYD & MARS LEE: Make open source accessible

ABOUT SPEAKERS
Hi, I’m Isabela (she/her), UX/UI designer officially and a professional question-asker by self-proclamation. I also work at Quansight Labs and spend most of my time in open source communities like JupyterLab and Spyder. Accessibility, community, and supporting new and underrepresented people are a few of the things that matter to me.
GitHub: https://github.com/isabela-pf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabela-presedo-floyd-32b99a160
Twitter: @isabelapf2

Hi, I’m Mars, I poke at front-end code! I also design web pages and draw comics about code at CodeSprite Explains. I contribute to open-source projects, specifically to NumPy's website, documentation, and accessibility.
GitHub: https://github.com/MarsBarLee
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mars-lee
Twitter: @marsbarlee

ABOUT TALK
Do you want to make a contribution to an open-source project but not sure where to start? Do you want to make the internet a more accessible place? Learn to do all this and more in this workshop!
We will discuss how blind and visually impaired people use the internet, what alt-text is and why it is important, and how and why to make open-source projects accessible. We will also learn how to make alt-text for tech documentation, with a focus on alt-text in the scientific Python ecosystem. And by the end of this workshop, you’ll have made a contribution to an open-source project using GitHub!

PREREQUISITES
Have a GitHub account.