A11y Meetup Berlin #16

This event is presented by our friends from A11y Meetup Berlin, check out their page for more info here.

Welcome everyone to the 16th edition of the A11y Meetup Berlin!
The event will take place on November 7th, 2023 kindly hosted by ThoughtWorks! Our main goal is to encourage everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital access, inclusion, performance, and people with different disabilities.

Agenda

19:00 Doors Open
19:30 Quick Intro
19:40 First Talk
20:10 Short Break
20:25 Second Talk
20:55 Closing Notes

Talks

1. Accessibility is a design choice by Gunnar Bittersmann

Top design-focused issues of 2022: low text
color contrast, empty links & buttons, missing image alt text, skipped & missing headings, missing form labels. Collaborarion of designers and developers: documenting accessibility & user interactions.

About the Speaker:
Gunnar is a web design engineer and edutainer. He values people (UX) over technology and is a true believer in inclusive design and progressive enhancement. At conferences and meetups he talks about HTML & CSS, UX, accessibility & inclusive design, typography, with occasional references to Bruce Springsteen’s music and Star Trek.
Link to his Website
Link to Twitter Profil

2. Intro to Mobile App Accessibility by Rachael Yomtoob

Accessibility for the web has gained visibility in the last few years, but what about mobile apps? Let's talk about why making your mobile app accessible is just as important, if not more important, than building an accessible website. I'll introduce how digital accessibility standards like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) can apply to mobile apps.

About the Speaker:
Rachael discovered their passion for accessibility while working on a project team at the University of Michigan that developed an Android application to provide indoor navigation for people with visual disabilities. They joined the mobile team at Deque in 2018 as a web developer where they got to learn about both mobile and web accessibility before transitioning to a product owner. Aside from being a digital accessibility professional, Rachael is a proud cat parent to three fur babies and enjoys spending their free time at hot yoga classes or diamond painting.
Link to Twitter Profile

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If you would like to speak at A11y Meetup Berlin we will be glad to receive your talk proposal https://a11y-meetup-berlin.de/submit.html
Code of Conduct : https://a11y-meetup-berlin.de/code-of-conduct.html

Accessibility
The Location is accessible for wheelchair users. This includes the entrance (no steps to get into the location), toilets and the stage.

Captions:
We will be able to provide simple automated transcription via Zoom during the event. The transcription will be shown on a digital board.
Folks who would like to use the transcription are recommend to sit close to the board in the front.
Alternatively, you can also log into the zoom call via your own device and follow it from there.
We are looking for sponsors to be able to provide live transcriptions for our event.
Please contact us, or comment in this event, if you would like to be a sponsor, to make the event more accessibile via [info@a11y-meetup-berlin.de](http://mailto:info@a11y-meetup-berlin.de/).