Durham-Raleigh A11y: The Accessibility Meetup-Triangle Style

Speaker Series - Durham-Raleigh A11y - June Event - Speaker: Miranda Capra

Tue, Jun 16 · 6:00 PM EDT

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This June meeting continues our burgeoning speaker series. We happily welcome Miranda Capra -- one of our newest members who also happens to have deep experience in making tech and physical spaces accessible -- as she talks about practical tools we can use to create accessible sites and apps.

Title: Accessibility Tools & Reference

Description: Learn about the plugins, bookmarklets, and websites you should have at your fingertips as you create accessible websites and apps. Shoutouts will go to folks that post your favorites in the #a11y-resources channel in our Slack workspace: https://a11y-triangle.slack.com/

Speaker Bio - Miranda Capra: Miranda teaches Accessibility for Designers, a 6-hour no-code workshop for designers, content writers, and researchers. Miranda is an IAAP CPWA (CPACC + WAS), has been conducting accessibility reviews and training for a decade, and was the Truist Bank Enterprise Accessibility Lead. Previously, she spent 15 years as a UX Researcher.

Location: 1009 Think Pl, Morrisville, NC 27560
(Note: We meet in a local Microsoft location; sometimes the Meetup site map does not direct folks correctly, please use the actual address)

Date: June 16th
Time: 6pm-8pm
Agenda:

• 6:00-6:15: Meet and greet
• 6:15-6:30: Welcome and Introductions
• 6:30-7:15: Accessibility Tools & Reference by Miranda Capra
• 7:15-7:45: Accessibility Dialogue(s) – attendees talk about a11y topics (can include follow up discussion related to the talk)
• 7:45-8:00: Wrap up

Microsoft Contact:
Jalen McGee is our contact at Microsoft. Thanks, Jalen, for getting this set up.
Thanks to Microsoft for letting us use their facility.

Parking:
The building has a large free parking lot in front. Please park there and enter through the main door. If I receive updates to any of this information, I'll contact everyone here ASAP.

Food and Drink:
As of now, our meeting doesn't have sponsors for food. Microsoft said we can bring food and drinks into the room. So Esther plans to bring some water and soda for everyone. If you need something more substantial than this, feel free to bring that for yourself.

If you know of an organization wanting to sponsor food and drinks or other needs for this or future events, please reach out to Mel Linares, Andi Pitt, or Esther Siram.

Lainey Feingold Discusses Her Book and DRA11y Turns One - July Event

Tue, Jul 21 · 6:00 PM EDT

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Save the Date!

Durham-Raleigh A11y: The Accessibility Meetup-Triangle Style celebrates its first birthday.

A major part of this birthday party includes a virtual conversation with Lainey Feingold about the recently published book, Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech. Lainey is an editor and wrote two chapters in this groundbreaking collection.

More details to come, but in the interim please start reading her book and get questions and thoughts ready to discuss with Lainey.

• If it's not burdensome to you at this time, please support Lainey and the books' other 39 authors and editors by purchasing it (you can find it at the following link and at other book sellers like Amazon; see https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Accessibility-Ethics-Disability-Inclusion-in-All-Things-Tech/Feingold-Gilbert-Fleet/p/book/9781041018681).
• The book is also available in Bookshare, a library for people with print disabilities.
• Also please contact your local libraries and see if they can order this book so others in our community can have the opportunity to read it easily.
• If accessing the book seems burdensome, please reach out to Esther, Andi, or Mel. We can't promise specific results, but will do what we can to help connect you to the book.

Again, more details to come. Stay tuned!

Happy Birthday Durham-Raleigh A11y!