San Diego Accessibility & Inclusive Design September 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
ARIA Patterns & Their Limitations
Illai Zeevi is a front-end developer, designer, and Head of Accessibility at Evinced. He leads Evinced efforts for customers surrounding accessibility standards and guides accessibility for Evinced products. Illai was the primary author for the 2024 release of MCAG 1.0, Evinced's proposed, non-proprietary standard for evaluating the accessibility of mobile apps.
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Creating Equitable Access Through Mindful Design
India Kaltsas West is a partially sighted, neurodivergent disability inclusion and equity activist, passionate about all things related to accessibility, co-creating a world where people with disabilities can operate fully and without barriers.
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Past, Present, and Future: The Evolution of a11ySD
Harris Schneiderman is a software developer turned Product Manager with a strong passion for accessibility. He is a coorganizer of a11ySD and works for Deque Systems. He enjoys working on open source projects aimed at making the web a better place 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!