All Levels: Website accessibility for everyone

Website accessibility is both a legal requirement and a good business practice. Colleen Gratzer will be presenting on what website accessibility is and how you can both serve your website visitors and protect yourself from lawsuits!

This meetup will cover:

• What is accessibility and how does it affect you and your clients?
• Who does accessibility apply to?
• Why can't you just use an automated checker, plugin or overlay?
• How do you test for web accessibility?

Our guest speaker, Colleen Gratzer, is an award-winning designer with 25 years of experience in branding, print, and web design and development.

An accessibility specialist since 2016, she’s provided InDesign
accessibility training to the U.S. Department of the Interior and at the
CreativePro InDesign + Accessibility Summit. She’s appeared on many
podcasts and given talks about website accessibility.

Her consulting business, Gratzer Graphics, provides design and
accessibility services.

Through Creative Boost, she teaches accessible design and website
accessibility courses, hosts the Design Domination podcast and mentors
designers to help them gain confidence, clarity and a competitive edge
in a crowded marketplace.

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In summary, we'll cover important information about website accessibility:

• How people with different types of disabilities are affected by the
  websites you build
• How ignoring accessibility costs you and your clients (in more ways
  than you think!)
• Why automated checkers and plugins aren't enough
• Why overlays don't work
• Some practices to help you get started with accessibility

The format will be a presentation followed by Q&A.