San Diego Accessibility & Inclusive Design August Meetup
Details
Come talk accessibility with us at the Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Library. We'll have some amazing lightning talks and time for networking and hanging out.
We'll start the lightning talks around 6:30pm.
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Title: Inclusive Design & Social Media
Stacy Warner is an accessibility website specialist and adjunct lecturer at San Diego State University. She started her passion for UI/UX design and accessibility in the early 2000’s while attending a usability conference hosted by the Neilson Norman Group. Stacy also has a background in fine arts (photography and painting) which she frequently uses to approach projects with a creative perspective as well as ensuring their accessibility and usability.
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Title: Awareness Labs and Everyday Accessibility
Jamie Herrera has been engaged with international disability rights professionally and academically for over 15 years. After coordinating programs at a disability nonprofit in Mexico, collaborating with the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and US State Department disability initiatives, in 2016 Jamie shifted from disability policy to digital accessibility. She works at Deque Systems as a Native Mobile Accessibility Consultant.
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Title: Inclusive Design for Cognitive Disabilities
Ted Drake, Intuit's Accessibility and Inclusive Design Leader, shares what they've learned while resesarching inclusive design for Sickle Cell Disease, Long COVID, and Brain Fog. You'll learn about reducing cognitive load and steps to improve the experience for everyone.
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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 in the Community Room of the Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Library.