Testing, Testing and Accessibility

Mario will focus on several of Adobe's "Edge" suite tools and share some tips and techniques on how he tests for desktop, tablets and handheld devices.

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/7/2/8/0/event_263669312.jpegMario has been a web designer and front end developer for about ten years with four years of experience freelance and about six company based ranging from small sites to large scale enterprise. He’s pretty excited about hybrid mobile development in particular PhoneGap and device agnostic development. Currently, the Principal at Mario Noble Design and the lead organizer for Southern California Web Designers and Developers.

Let's make the web more accessible to everyone. Joseph O'Connor will discuss the Web Accessibility Initiative which seeks to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. He will talk about the CITIES project; the goal of which is to produce accessible WordPress themes. And he will have hints and tips for all of us on how we can build accessible features into our projects.

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/8/0/4/event_270943012.jpegJoseph Karr O’Connor is an accessibility consultant who lives in Santa Monica, California. When Section 508 came into effect in 1999 he began leading teams producing accessible web environments, first at Pasadena City College and then at California State University, Northridge.

Joe has been using WordPress in support of non-profits, research, and university news since 2005. Now leading Cities, a world-wide effort to build free accessible WordPress themes, Joe also contributes to Make WordPress Accessible (http://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/) and asks you to get involved.

A public speaker for many years Joe recently presented “Cities: Making Accessible WordPress Themes” in April 2013, at Reno-Tahoe WordCamp and about WAI-ARIA at SoCal UX Camp 2013 Cal State Fullerton in June. He also spoke about WordPress accessibility at WordCamp Montreal, June 2013.

Volunteers!

Can you help? We need several volunteers to help set-up chairs before the meeting and to take down afterwards. Please let us know if you can help!

THANK YOUS!!

A huge Thank You! to Cross Campus our host. They provided the venue and all the tech support this evening.

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!! Doorprizes !!

Thank you to our sponsors, we have all sorts of doorprizes to give you! You too can thank them by supporting them the next time you are looking for a plug-in, books, dvds, footage, training. Many have new tutorials / tips / project files for their end users.

Adobe Systems (http://www.adobe.com)
Thank you Adobe for your support! Whether your a beginner or a veteran Adobe user, you should probably check out their site again. Did you know that there is a Community Page at the Adobe site with tips/tricks/FAQs about their products? Coders have you checked out the cookbook pages?

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