San Diego Accessibility & Inclusive Design July Meetup
Details
Come talk accessibility with us at Novo Brazil Brewing Mission Valley! We'll have some amazing lightning talks and time for networking and hanging out.
We'll start the lightning talks around 7:00pm. We'll live stream the event. Food and drinks available for purchase!
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Speakers & Topics
Introduction to Assistive Technology
Christopher Land is a Principal User Experience Designer with Oracle and co-organizer of a11ySD. Chris has experience in training, coding, design, UX and enterprise systems. He sees digital accessibility as crucial in providing people with disabilities an unprecedented level of independence.
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Design Beyond Vision: Universal Tangible Interactions for PVI (Persons with Visual Impairments)
Varun Sai Koruprolu is a recent product design graduate located in San Diego. His latest work experience is as a Product Designer at the National Center for Assistive Health Technologies (NCAHT). There, he focused on conducting qualitative research and building experiential prototypes for persons with visual impairments (PVI). Varun has a keen interest in documenting tangible interactions with products and spaces and publishes them on an Instagram account at ixd.titbits. He believes that immersive experiences will become the next most valuable asset of the future.
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Why Developers Get Cold Feet When Approaching Accessibility
Meet Coriano Harris, a client-side wizard who adores making digital magic happen. Accessibility is his jam, and he's on a mission to make sure everyone can groove to the digital beat. Coriano's talk will dive into the hurdles developers face with accessibility and share savvy tips to slay those challenges like The Hound from Game of Thrones.
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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!