Mobile Accessibility Tools: Camera Switches and More

Important note for in-person attendees

This event will be online and in-person. The speaker and live stream starts at 7:30 pm ET. In-person attendees may arrive as early as 7 pm ET.

Description
The presentation will focus on specific interesting and potentially very useful accessibility options on the Android and iOS platforms. These include Facial Gesture Recognition, Accessibility Scanner, and more.

The goal is to provide an overview and live demonstrations on how to set up, configure, and use advanced and often unnoticed assistive technologies to potentially make the lives of users with accessibility requirements easier and hopefully showcase the unique potential of these tools.

This talk will highlight the use of Hardware switches, specifically Camera Switches, on mobile devices. This technology goes beyond just Talkbalk and provides a powerful and potentially untapped capability to those who need it and are using mobile devices.

This talk will cover:

• Hardware switches have several ways of being configured for optimal use. This will cover some.
• Raise awareness for providing technologies for people with motor disabilities.
• Use Accessbilify Scanner and other tools to help identify where accessibility can be improved in different digital properties such as games and sites.

There will be time for your questions.

Presenter bio
Shafik Quoraishee is a Games Engineer at The New York Times, who's building out the Games Mobile platform, specifically in Android.

Before his involvement with Games, he worked in the media industry for several years and in almost all walks of application development from full stack and data engineering to artificial intelligence. He has experience in building out features to make them more accessible and usable to the user population.

Shafik on Medium and on X @SQuoraishee

Accessibility
The presentation will have human captions [CC], not automatic captions. Please let us know about accessibility requirements two weeks before the event.

Livestream
View on YouTube

Provided by Internet Society Accessibility SIG.

Location details
The event is on the 4th floor. Everyone must be accompanied to the event on the 4th floor. Because everyone needs to be escorted, please arrive early or on time. When you enter the ground floor, ask for Ben Ogilvie from A11yNYC to get elevator access.

Attendees can enter on the third floor and go up the staircase, or request accommodation to go directly to the 4th floor. Thanks to Ben Ogilvie for making this possible! Let us know if you're coming!

The building is near several transit stops:

6 train

• Spring Street (non-accessible stop): 100 feet
• Canal Street (accessible stop): 0.4 miles

NQRW trains

• Prince Street (non-accessible stop): 0.2 miles
• Canal Street (accessible stop): 0.3 miles

M1 / M55 Bus lines

• Broadway/Spring Street stop: 500 feet

Cabs and rideshares can let passengers out right near the building entrance

Accreditation
All A11yNYC meetups are pre-approved for IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC).

Sponsors
Thanks to Asana, Evinced, Equal Entry, and Fable for sponsoring. Want to be a sponsor? Contact meryl@equalentry.com