Accessibility Events in July
The usual, but with a sprinkle of self-promotion because your girl will be at the We are Developers World Congress!
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[German Only] Digital A11Y Lean Coffee #4
Monday July 1st, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CEST
Every first Monday of the Month, Johannes Lehner hosts the Digital A11y Lean Coffee on Zoom. Tiny disclaimer: We mostly talked in German the last time, simply because we were exclusively German speakers thus far.
[Austria exclusive] Online-Sprechstunden bei der Behindertenanwältin Mag.a Christine Steger
Mittwoch, 03. Juli 2024 von 16:00 bis 18:00 Uhr
Die Anwältin für Gleichbehandlungsfragen für Menschen mit Behinderungen, Mag.a Christine Steger, bietet nun einmal pro Monat eine online Sprechstundenmöglichkeit für Anfragen von Klient:innen an.
Anmeldungen für die Sprechstunden werden entweder telefonisch unter 0800 80 80 16 oder per Mail unter office@behindertenanwalt.gv.at entgegengenommen.
Disability & Climate: In Conversation with Mary Keogh, Mahbub Kabir and Gordon Rattray
Thursday 4th July, 9 AM BST
During the session, Mary, Mahbub and Gordon will be discussing the work of CBM Global and the European Disability Forum to influence positive change at community, national and global levels to ensure a disability inclusive policy and programme response to the climate crisis.
If you would like to read more and/or sign up for the session, please complete this form. If the form is inaccessible for you, please do email Sarah (Sarah.Bell@exeter.ac.uk) to share your interests in joining instead. We will then send round a Zoom sign in link about a week before the event.
Building for Everyone
Saturday 6th July, 2-3 PM CEST
This Twitter Space discussion is organized by GDG Mons!
Focus points for the discussion include:
Understanding the importance of accessibility in various aspects of development, including urban planning, technology, education, and beyond.
Exploring innovative strategies and tools for designing inclusive spaces and solutions that accommodate diverse needs and abilities.
Addressing challenges and overcoming barriers to accessibility, both systemic and attitudinal.
Whether you're a seasoned advocate for accessibility or just beginning your journey towards creating more inclusive environments, this event offers a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals, learn from experts in the field, and contribute to the advancement of inclusive development.
Creating Accessible Documents
18th July 2024, 4 pm
In this webinar, we'll discuss how to assure accessibility for key types of document - Word, PowerPoint, spreadsheets, PDF, even ODT (Open Document Files) - and the challenges and advantages of different formats and the tools used to author them.
We'll discuss how WCAG relates to documents, how to use free tools to test their accessibility, and why you need to go beyond WCAG to make them accessible for all.
We'll share tips and tricks for embedding accessibility in your document templates, and how to help people across your organisation to integrate accessibility thinking and checking into all their document creation. After all, so many more people create documents every day than web pages.
Finally, we'll also cover the most common question we get asked about document legacy: "What do we do with all the inaccessible stuff we already have - do we need to fix it all?"
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Smart Cities: Enhancing Urban Design and Mobility for All
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 09:30 - 18:00 CEST
Location: Fundación ONCE. Calle Sebastián Herrera, 15 28012 Madrid
Recognising the importance of urban tourism to the visitor economy, the event will also examine ways in which cities are working to ensure equal access for all to urban streets, heritage buildings and monuments, for the benefit of local communities and visitors, making use of participatory design approaches and smart data.
Ask Anything About Digital Accessibility
Tuesday, July 16, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM CEST
NETCONOMY GmbH Bahnhofgürtel 77, Graz
For the on-site meet-up at Netconomy, limited seats are available, for the remote version, as many as Zoom allows.
Since accessibility is not only about the concept, but also the implementation, we invited Manuel Matuzović, a frontend developer, consultant, accessibility auditor, and writer (and organizer of the CSS in Graz meetup). Besides being passionate about HTML and CSS, he has specialized in web accessibility and large-scale CSS. He will discuss your questions during our event together with Johannes Lehner (organizer of the Online Digital A11Y Stammtisch).
We ask you to get involved:
Ask and upvote questions you want to get answered during our meetup via Slido https://app.sli.do/event/jgtKifiyadWLAF6VcQFcMt until latest Friday, July 12th!
in-Person
Berlin: How Blind People navigate the World, both on- and offline at We are Developers World Congress
17-19 July 2024
That’s right: The Accessibility First girls are coming to Berlin! We will be hosting a workshop at the We Are Developers World Congress on the 19th of July.
The WCAG are our non-tactile guiding lines for web accessibility, but many of us working in web accessibility have never experienced the real world through low-vision eyes. This talk is a collaboration between UX for hardware and front-end development to give you the best of both worlds: on and offline. Together we will explore how a white cane can take you from point A to be and how a screen reader works through your main user flow. Because accessibility is a team effort!
On the odd chance that you just now decided to join the congress, we have a family & friends code for you: WWC24-FRIENDS10
Linz, Austria: Fachtagung IKT-Forum Juli 2024.
Tagung für Menschen mit und ohne Behinderungen: Praxis – Forschung – Entwicklung
Das IKT-Forum findet heuer am 08. und 09. Juli 2024 an der Johannes Kepler Universität in Linz start.
Im Rahmen des IKT-Forums 2024 sind unter anderem folgende Programmschwerpunkte geplant:
Assistierende Technologien
Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT)
Technik und Lebensqualität
Unterstützte Kommunikation
Barrierefreies Webdesign
Barrierefreie PDFs
Barrierefreie Information
Vorträge in Leichter Sprache
Inklusion und Empowerment
Inklusive Bildung
Integrative Beschäftigung
AccessibleEU Austria - EAA: Practice and implementation
Monday 8 July 2024, 11:00 - 17:30 CEST
Within the ICT Forum annual conference organised by the KI-I Competence Network Information Technology to Support the Integration of People with Disabilities, AccessibleEU co-organises this year a free track which deals with various aspects of accessiblity in the context of the implementation of the EAA, in collaboration with KI-I and Access Austria.
Target audience: ICT related persons, teachers, students, peers.
When: Monday, July 8, 2024
Where: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, IKT-Forum, Altenberger Straße 69. 4040 Linz, Austria
Format: Onsite
Type of event: Networking
Language: German
How to participate: Free registration
Accessibility information: Accessible venue. Captioning and sign interpretation in German if needed. Personal assistance if required. Silent room.
Up next…
UX Con Vienna
September 17-19
The 2024 conference brings a pleasant variety of accessibility-centric workshops! Of course, we also have a 10% discount for this conference: uxconspeaker, all lower-case, no spaces, just like every decent podcast promoting a VPN!
Accessibility is not a checklist!
Yet many focus on checking all the boxes to make their UI accessible and miss the bigger picture. Accessibility is not the goal in itself, but simply a means to an end: an inclusive experience for all users!
In this workshop, participants will learn how to spot the most common accessibility bugs plaguing an assistive tech user’s journey. Don’t know what types of assistive technology (or AT for short) is out there in the big wide world? No worries! Laura, UX Researcher for the AT development company Hope Tech, will explain what exists, how it works and what’s so cool about it. Spoiler alert: It’s the ability to provide access.
Web accessibility has to be anchored in the code, which can look scary at first. But don’t worry! Google Development Expert Julia will guide you through the other side of the console.log and teach you how to communicate these issues to your dev team.
All participants are cordially invited to bring their website for us to test together!
Design for the mind: Neurodiversity and mental health in UX
Did you know that one in five people globally is neurodivergent? Or that half of all individuals will experience a mental health condition at some stage? Yet, many products are designed without considering the full spectrum of human experiences and abilities. In this workshop, we’re going to change that.
During our session, we'll:
Explore neurodiversity
Understand users' needs and preferences
Highlight barriers they experience
Brainstorm inclusive design solutions
Together, we'll explore how to create digital spaces that authentically include people with invisible disabilities. Ready to design experiences that embraces everyone?
Accessible typography for web & UI design
How can you best combine sublime typography with web accessibility? This fun and practical workshop gives you clear guidelines for a seemingly too fuzzy area. Learn how to set the text in your design projects beautifully accessible, making it reach and convince more people, while meeting legal requirements.
The workshop covers:
Which WCAG requirements (success criteria) matter for visual design.
How to assess if a typeface is accessible.
Which contrast requirements are crucial.
What are the best font sizes.
The ideal line length, line height and letter spacing.
Suggestions of handy tools, plugins and resources.
Short exercises, letting you apply what you just learned, right away.
For whom this workshop is:
This workshop is aimed towards visual designers, UI, app, or graphic designers. It will not be technical, so not about HTML elements or providing alt tags. It dives into typography and accessibility, not accessible web design in general. The goal of the workshop is taking the weight out of an often overwhelming and fuzzy topic, and breaking it down into practical, usable steps.