Event Logistics, Date and Time:, Tuesday, March 8, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., Format:, Online, Event Description, There are over 234 million people worldwide with a speech disability or difference — Gareth Walkom is one of them. For a person with a speech disability or difference, just getting what they need in everyday interactions can be stressful, which intensifies when the stakes are raised during job interviews, presentations, public speaking, and other activities. As a result, some people with a speech…, Register to Attend, Register at the A11y VR Event page . You can download a calendar file after signing up to add to your calendar.
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Event Logistics, Date and Time: , Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 7:30 p.m., Format:, Attend online through A11y NYC Meetup, Event Description, Most of our time online is typically spent reading text, yet we don't often consider how accessible that text is. The typefaces, fonts, and text styling used can have a significant impact on the user experience — and there are few accessibility guidelines that relate to text accessibility. This session will provide an overview of how reading is processed in the human mind, and how to minimize the…, Presenter Bio, Jared Smith is the Associate Director of WebAIM. He is a highly demanded presenter and trainer and has provided web accessibility training to tens of thousands of web professionals throughout the world. With over 20 years of experience working in the web design, development, and accessibility field, he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that is used to help others create and maintain…
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between. Some of the sessions that will be offered: Beyond 99 Red Balloons - A Pragmatic guide to alternative text How Project…, How to join, No sign-up. No registration. All sessions are streamed live and publicly on the Inclusive Design 24 YouTube channel – see the entire playlist for the event . Live captions for each session will be available. Have a question for a presenter? No problem! Tweet your questions to @id24conf using the #id24 hashtag and our moderators will make sure they get them answered for you.
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Disability rights activity, writer, and speaker Emily Ladau has released her first book, Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally . This practical, intersectional guide offers all readers a welcoming place to understand disability as part of the human experience., About the book, People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know about, including: How to appropriately think, talk, and…, How to purchase the book, This book is available in various print, audio, and digital formats at Penguin Random House .
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The Digital Experience team has launched a new Provide Inclusive Meetings and Events page on the Inclusive by Design site. This page can be found in the How to Create an Inclusive Experience section of the site. The goal of the page is to provide presenters and event coordinators with general guidelines on how to ensure meetings and events are disability inclusive, including how to create…
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axe-con is an open and inclusive digital accessibility conference that welcomes developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals of all experience levels to a new kind of accessibility conference focused on building, testing, and maintaining accessible digital experiences. The conference will be held virtually Tuesday, March 15 through Thursday, March 17th, 2022. You can…
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Teach Access has launched the latest iteration of the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit on GitHub. The move to GitHub will allow us to post translations of the job positions and interview questions going forward. The goal of the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit is to help organizations build internal capacity for producing accessible digital products by developing a knowledgeable and…
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As an attorney diagnosed with autism at the age of three, author Haley Moss grew up knowing what it was like to feel unheard or unseen because of the way she communicated. Neurodiversity is a natural, valuable aspect of human diversity, yet one that too often means that people with neurocognitive differences face discrimination and exclusion. Haley's book Great Minds Think Differently:…
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Two of the biggest gaps in digital accessibility include lack of accessibility guidelines around mental health and how to bridge the knowledge divide between advocacy and professional. In this Accessibility Talks event, Albert Kim, the founder of Accessibility NextGen and a W3C invited expert on mental health, will be discussing his digital accessibility journey and the role Accessibility NextGen…
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Access Technology Higher Education Network (ATHEN) is hosting the first ever “ Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Accessibility: Starting with Math ” virtual conference on February 10th and 11th, 2022. We are striving to create a diverse conference where experts can share their best practices, solutions, techniques, etc. for accessing and creating accessible STEM content in higher…
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