San Diego Accessibility & Inclusive Design November Meetup
Details
Come talk accessibility with us at the Ballast Point - Little Italy. We'll have some amazing lightning talks and time for networking and hanging out.
We'll start the lightning talks around 6:50pm.
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Title: Problem exists between keyboard and _____
Melissa De Yoe is UX/UI Designer for San Diego based health and wellness software company, MediKeeper. While relatively new to her career in UX/UI Design, her professional background in customer service, project management and operations have primed her to consider granular details of a single stakeholders experience to big picture objectives of an organization. She will analyze "the UX domain" and shed light on how she balances usability & accessibility with wellness initiatives so people of all abilities can access better health.
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Title: Accessibility Problems with Text Over Backgrounds
Kevin Berg is the Head of Solutions Engineering at Evinced, where he is dedicated to helping leading enterprises improve and accelerate their digital accessibility efforts. Kevin trained originally as a classical musician at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Texas, where he got his doctoral degree, then spent six years at Sauce Labs, a leading functional test automation platform, where he eventually led global solutions engineering before joining Evinced in a similar role. When he is not helping Evinced customers through challenges, Kevin is home in Montana making stuff (he is a hobby machinist), playing his oboe, and enjoying family life with his wife and two kids.
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Title: Unexpected Cognitive and Physical Disability Trait Overlaps
Kristin Patterson is a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) through the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP), an independent digital accessibility consultant, and a former Product Manager and mobile app user experience Strategist across global enterprise, agency, and startup environments.
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Title: Inclusive Design and AAC ( Augmentative and Alternative Communication )
Yvonne (Yiwen) Hou is an accessibility enthusiast, currently a product designer at Cisco. She has a background in Cognitive Science, Design, and Human-Computer Interaction. You will understand what augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is, and hear about a design case study from her research at CMU Master of HCI. She will share practical research and co-design strategies that improve screen navigation efficiency for AAC users with cerebral palsy via head movement tracking.
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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 a reserved cabana at Ballast Point - Little Italy.