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Our April meetup. This is a free event, all welcome to join!

Due to the ongoing COVID19 outbreak, this meetup will be via Zoom.
You can download Zoom from here https://zoom.us/download

You can join the meeting on the day with the link provided by the meetup event.

We will send the passcode to everyone before the event begins.

Agenda:

19:00 Join and welcome messages
19:15 Championing accessibility, and 3 talks to get you started by Chris Sherry

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This talk will cover what an accessibility champion is, what it isn't, and 5 things that made accessibility really matter to Chris.

This talk also includes 3 mini-talks on improving accessibility:

  • This is Pepe - accessible image markup
  • Where's this going? Helpful hyperlinks for all
  • Interpreting WCAG2.1 colour contrast

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Chris is a Senior Software Engineer at Passenger Technology Group, developing APIs and web applications to help people get from A to be B in a greener way. He's a conference speaker and meetup organiser, and is also a core organiser of the Teddy Rocks Music Festival where he volunteers his time as a developer and an event organiser to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds to fight children's cancer.

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Are you interested in talking at our next meetup? Please get in touch by emailing Spectrum IT at admin@spectrumit.co.uk!

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Sponsors:
Spectrum IT - Spectrum IT Recruitment is a collaboration of over 10 years recruitment experience, providing recruitment services and consultancy to the IT sector UK wide.

Efficio - Efficio help organisations reduce costs, improve internal processes and upskill their procurement teams so that they can realise cost savings faster. The Digital department in Fareham use PHP to build Efficio's procurement product suite.

JetBrains PhpStorm - PhpStorm keeps up with latest PHP & web languages trends, integrates a variety of modern tools, and brings even more extensibility with support for major PHP frameworks.

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