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Come hang out and talk accessibility! This meetup is for anyone interested in anything related to accessibility and inclusive design. We'll usually have lightning talks by accessibility experts and plenty of time to chat with speakers and fellow attendees.
We have an a11ysd channel on the web-a11y slack:
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San Diego Accessibility & Inclusive Design July Meetup
ServiceNow - San Diego Bldg C, 4820 Eastgate Mall, San Diego, CA, USCome talk accessibility with us at the ServiceNow Campus. We'll have some amazing lightning talks and time for networking and hanging out.
We'll start the lightning talks around 6:45pm. Food and drinks will be provided!
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Speakers & Topics
What Is It Like To Be An AI Agent? An Exploration of Humanity, Accessibility, and the Limits of Artificial Awareness
Emily Barbenza is a Staff Accessibility Engineer with 13 years at ServiceNow and founding member of their accessibility program. She is a disabled person writing and speaking about AI, disability, and consciousness at the intersection of philosophy of mind and accessibility.
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The New Front Door: How AI Interfaces Can Improve Access for Blind and Low Vision Users and What We Must Get Right
Blake Steinecke is Digital Accessibility Lead at ServiceNow, helping build the internal accessibility program in the employee-facing product organization. With a background across product and marketing teams, he approaches accessibility as a user experience and organization wide challenge, and as a visually impaired assistive technology user with experience developing AI for the blind community, he brings firsthand perspective to that work. Outside of work he is an adaptive sports enthusiast and has a one year old son.
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Please let us know if you have any needs we can accommodate.
Whether you're an accessibility guru or are just curious about what exactly web accessibility and inclusive design are, this event is for you. This group is for designers, developers, project managers, execs... really anyone involved in building and supporting IT products. Let's get together, network, collaborate and learn from one another!
About the Location
We'll be meeting at ServiceNow Building C - Del Mar meeting room.
- Enter the building from the East side. The building is not labeled Building C. The address is 4820 Eastgate Mall. There is a reception/lobby ambassador desk where attendees will check in.
- Go towards the glass doors (key card access only), and make a left towards Del Mar.
- The meeting room entrance is the first door on the left. The gender-neutral restroom is past the first door.
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