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Accessibility Events in July
If you know of any other events happening in the online or offline accessibility, disability inclusion space, email them to me by replying to this…
The Cost of Accessibility Tech Debt
Now I get why the Project Managers never took accessibility issues seriously!
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Laura Wissiak
Designing for Common Ground
Inclusive design is a wonderful word, but what we actually need is designing for the minimal common denominator.
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Laura Wissiak
Access to Assistive Tech
As UX researcher for assistive tech, I know the impact it can have if it’s the right fit. But the user journey to get there? Let's talk about that too!
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Laura Wissiak
World Assistive Tech Day 2025: Unlock the Every Day
World AT Day is coming up on June 4th. What’s it about?
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Laura Wissiak
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May 2025

Accessibility Events in June
Pride Month & World Assistive Technology Day
Speaker's Guide to Live Captions and Sign Language Interpretation
How to prepare your talk for live transcription and sign language interpretation.
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Laura Wissiak
Who’s that code snippet?
Straight from A-Tag 2025: A Pokémon-inspired guessing game for semantic HTML. Let's have fun with screen readers!
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Laura Wissiak
Rules of the Game, Rules of ARIA
First rule of ARIA: Don’t use ARIA. Well, there’s a bit more to it. And also 4 other rules that don’t get the same attention for their lack of meme…
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Laura Wissiak

April 2025

Accessibility Events in May
Save the Date: May 5th is European Protest Day Campaigning for the Equality of Disabled People
Using Assistive Tech is like Coding Guitar Hero with a Guitar
No Patrick, a guitar is not an assistive tech device, but some "accessible" websites feel like trying to beat Dark Souls.
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Laura Wissiak
The Story of Hope Tech: It takes a village to build anything, and a community to build it properly.
From UX design to community-led product development: How Hope Tech builds accessible solutions with the disabled community.
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Laura Wissiak
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