The Past, Present and Future of Accessibility in Mozilla Hubs
Details
Hubs works towards the Mozilla mission of keeping the internet open and accessible to all by providing an ecosystem for communities, organizers, educators, artists, and developers to easily build and deploy innovative web content in a social, open manner.
The Mozilla Hubs team highly values the accessibility community's voice in helping to make Hubs a more usable and accessible product. Dan Fernie-Harper from the Hubs Design and People Experiences team will present an update on the past, present, and future of accessibility in Mozilla Hubs, speaking about the user experience design process.
PRESENTER BIO
Dan Fernie-Harper is a Design Content Creator on the Hubs Design and People Experiences team. He has a passion for inclusive emerging and immersive technologies complimenting his love of audio-visual production, traditional and digital illustration, and 3D animation and modeling.
ACCESSIBILITY
The presentation will be captioned [cc]. The event will have the real-time text translation displayed in Hubs.
Mozilla Hubs holds weekly office hours that can be used to practice and gain an understanding of how to interact in Mozilla Hubs.
LIVESTREAM
We will have video streaming of the event to YouTube via a partnership with the Internet Society Accessibility SIG (a11ySIG).
If you are unable to join via Hubs, we encourage you to watch the stream on YouTube and ask questions. As we begin meeting regularly each month we will capture feedback on ways we can be more accessible and inclusive in virtual reality and start incorporating them into a set of Best Practices.
SPONSORS
Thanks to Equal Entry for sponsoring.
ACCREDITATION
All A11yVR meetups are pre-approved for IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC).
TIMELINE
Please NOTE: Meetup is not skilled in representing timezones. This Meetup is set in Tokyo, Japan so it will display differently than your local time zone. When you RSVP, use the "Add to calendar" link to receive a calendar invite transcribed to your time zone.
This timeline is based on the New York ET time zone.
7 - 7:15 PM
Login/explore/troubleshooting audio and video
7:15 - 7:20 PM
Thomas Logan introduction to A11yVR
7:20 - 7:50 PM
Presentation
7:50 - 8 PM
Q&A with attendees that can last a maximum of 30 minutes, but typically runs around 10 minutes.
8 - 9 PM
Breakout sessions in small groups to get to know each other in virtual reality. It is up to you if you want to stay and continue meeting other people in the room.
The Past, Present and Future of Accessibility in Mozilla Hubs