V-a11y-tines Celebration - Durham-Raleigh A11y Style
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Happy V-a11y-tines Day
We'll discuss what we love about accessibility (a11y) and all sorts of other interesting a11y topics. For instance, February is Low Vision Awareness Month -- an interesting topic we could discuss deals with how people living with low vision navigate situations when they are at a store buying supplies, and the only method to pay for their items is with a touch screen, but the touch screen doesn't have good color contrast so the shopper cannot distinguish the number keys to enter their pin number... so they can't pay with their debit card... at least, they can't pay with their debit card without asking for assistance....
Anyway, come join in the fun conversations, share something, learn something, and hang out with others who enjoy making the world less cumbersome for all.
## Details
Thanks to Microsoft and Jalen McGee, we will meet at the Microsoft office in Morrisville, NC.
Tentative Agenda:
- 6:00-6:30: Meet and greet
- 6:30-6:45: Welcome
- 6:45-7:30: Accessibility Dialogue(s) – attendees talk about a11y topics
- 7:30-8:00: Wrap up
Please RSVP. Thanks.
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Location:
1009 Think Pl Morrisville, NC, 27560
Microsoft Contact:
Jalen McGee is our contact at Microsoft. Thanks, Jalen, for getting this set up.
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 I plan 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 for our event, please reach out to Mel Linares or Esther Siram.
Featured Image Description: the image for this event features some Valentine candy hearts with words on them like "Curb Cuts Rule", "ADA", "A11y means love." Unfortunately I (Esther) couldn't figure out how to add alt text or a description to the Meetup event image. ChatGPT helped create the image and called one of its iterations: "Sweet Messages of Accessibility."