Global Accessibility Awareness Day - Accessibility UK
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Accessibility UK is pleased to announce our event for Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2021.
Accessibility UK is a partnership between:
Accessibility London (https://twitter.com/A11yLondon).
Accessibility Leeds (https://twitter.com/a11y_leeds).
Accessibility Manchester (https://twitter.com/a11ymcr).
Accessibility Nottingham (https://twitter.com/a11ynottingham).
Accessibility Scotland (https://twitter.com/a11yscotland).
Bristol Inclusive Design & Development (https://twitter.com/brisinclusive).
Please join us on Thursday 20th May 7-9 PM (BST) for a talk and panel discussion.
Register for your free Zoom webinar place:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3lCW8Pc1SIKAmIMf3BzBZg
Talk:
The Little Book of Accessibility (Gareth Ford Williams - Co-Director of The Readability Group)
Drawing on 16 years experience in digital accessibility at the BBC, this talk is a collection of observations, affirmations, quotes and the like that summarise some of Gareth’s epiphanies and learnings that every accessibility manager needs to get to grips with. This is not about guidelines, techniques, patterns or research, but something more fundamental and akin to the truths behind the tools and techniques we use everyday. These are themes that could form the basis of an accessibility strategy for any organisation as they are about approaches or perspectives to common specific accessibility issues. This talk is not about specifics such as semantics or tab ordering, but written to help organisations understand why these things are important and even how accessibility can be self-sustaining.
After 16 years at the BBC where he founded the Digital Accessibility and Design Research Teams, in 2021 Gareth left to work as a co-director of The Readability Group, to further the development of the font accessibility test platform, but also to focus on tools and frameworks that enable accessibility to be managed at scale.
https://twitter.com/garethfw
https://twitter.com/readabilitygrp
Panel discussion:
We have a fantastic lineup of speakers ready to discuss and debate your accessibility questions.
Carys Llewellyn (Digital Accessibility Consultant at Incllewsion)
https://twitter.com/blindandb0ujee
Robin Barayuga (Graduate Accessibility Specialist at The Hut Group)
Robin was born blind and moved to the UK at a young age. Accessibility has always been a part of his life, from his education all the way to university, to more leisurely pursuits. Being a millennial, said pursuits are often digital! His role as a Graduate Accessibility Specialist at The Hut Group is an eye opening one. It’s allowing him to combine his lived experience with a more nuanced understanding of the field, which will hopefully help him in making impactful contributions.
Sofea Wong (Graduate Accessibility Specialist at The Hut Group)
Sofea is a Graduate Accessibility Specialist at The Hut Group, where she works alongside designers and developers to support them to create and build brilliant new features and run accessibility audits across different sites and applications. Her team create and deliver engagement resources to raise awareness and understanding of accessibility. She graduated from Nottingham Trent University, with a bachelor's degree in Information and Communications Technology in 2020, with a focus in Front End Development and UX Design, which creates the foundation of her knowledge to design and develop accessible websites.
Liam O’Dell (Freelance Journalist and Campaigner)
https://twitter.com/liamodelluk
Holly Scott-Gardner (Social Policy Student and Usability Assessor)
https://twitter.com/catchthesewords
Crystal Preston-Watson (Quality and Accessibility Engineer at Salesforce).
https://twitter.com/scopicengineer
Caren Launus-Gamble (Head of Operations and Sales/Web Content Editor at KreativeInc Agency).
https://twitter.com/kreativeinkweb
Global Accessibility Awareness Day - Accessibility UK