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October is
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/initiatives/ndeam
and I wanted to make sure that everyone knew about the special Boston Accessibility Meetup that we have planned to mark this occasion. Our special guest include a number of great speakers, so if you've been thinking that you want to learn more about any aspect of accessibility, I encourage you to join us, and you don't have to be from the Boston, or Massachusetts, or even the U.S., to join, although you may be surprised to find out how much of the accessibility concepts and guidelines we still use today have their origins in standards that were developed here in the Boston area.
Note: I have very brief panelist bios and links after the link to the event page.
Boston Accessibility Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/a11yBoston/
Disability Employment Awareness Month Online Event
Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021
1 PM to 3 PM
Schedule:
Opening remarks by Larry Goldberg
First Hour: A moderated conversation on “Past, Present and Future” of Boston Accessibility with special guests Boston Accessibility “legends” – Mike Paciello, Frances West, Andrew Kirkpatrick (Adobe), and possibly others as things develop.
Hour Two: We will split into breakout rooms, some ideas of which are still being developed, but two of which will b "Accessibility and Inclusive Employment" and "Technical Discussion of Accessibility."
Event page
https://www.meetup.com/a11yBoston/events/281257386?utm_medium=email&utm_source=promo&utm_campaign=event-announce-v2
Frances West is the former Chief Accessibility Officer at IBM, and published ILO report “Leave No One Offline” for the Business and Disability Network, the report can be found at the following link:
http://www.businessanddisability.org/publications/
Larry Goldberg is one of the movers behind XR Access, which is a project involving corporations, academics, programmers, and people with disabilities themselves to make XR technologies accessible to people with disabilities.
https:xraccess.org
but if you want to hear about some of Larry's many past projects, I also recommend this podcast wich starts off as an interview by Will Butler of Be My Eyes and turns into a mini-history of accessible media itself.
Who's Driving the Accessible Media Revolution
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whos-driving-accessible-media-revolution-will-butler
Mike Paciello
https://mikepaciello.com/#content
is the founder of The Paciello Group (now
TPG,
https://www.tpgi.com/ )
which is a leader in website accessibility and usability for businesses,
and, like others on this panel, has personally been very involved in the development of the accessibility and usability guidelines which we all use today.
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/initiatives/ndeam
and I wanted to make sure that everyone knew about the special Boston Accessibility Meetup that we have planned to mark this occasion. Our special guest include a number of great speakers, so if you've been thinking that you want to learn more about any aspect of accessibility, I encourage you to join us, and you don't have to be from the Boston, or Massachusetts, or even the U.S., to join, although you may be surprised to find out how much of the accessibility concepts and guidelines we still use today have their origins in standards that were developed here in the Boston area.
Note: I have very brief panelist bios and links after the link to the event page.
Boston Accessibility Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/a11yBoston/
Disability Employment Awareness Month Online Event
Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021
1 PM to 3 PM
Schedule:
Opening remarks by Larry Goldberg
First Hour: A moderated conversation on “Past, Present and Future” of Boston Accessibility with special guests Boston Accessibility “legends” – Mike Paciello, Frances West, Andrew Kirkpatrick (Adobe), and possibly others as things develop.
Hour Two: We will split into breakout rooms, some ideas of which are still being developed, but two of which will b "Accessibility and Inclusive Employment" and "Technical Discussion of Accessibility."
Event page
https://www.meetup.com/a11yBoston/events/281257386?utm_medium=email&utm_source=promo&utm_campaign=event-announce-v2
Frances West is the former Chief Accessibility Officer at IBM, and published ILO report “Leave No One Offline” for the Business and Disability Network, the report can be found at the following link:
http://www.businessanddisability.org/publications/
Larry Goldberg is one of the movers behind XR Access, which is a project involving corporations, academics, programmers, and people with disabilities themselves to make XR technologies accessible to people with disabilities.
https:xraccess.org
but if you want to hear about some of Larry's many past projects, I also recommend this podcast wich starts off as an interview by Will Butler of Be My Eyes and turns into a mini-history of accessible media itself.
Who's Driving the Accessible Media Revolution
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whos-driving-accessible-media-revolution-will-butler
Mike Paciello
https://mikepaciello.com/#content
is the founder of The Paciello Group (now
TPG,
https://www.tpgi.com/ )
which is a leader in website accessibility and usability for businesses,
and, like others on this panel, has personally been very involved in the development of the accessibility and usability guidelines which we all use today.
