From tft at uw.edu Wed Jan 10 10:57:02 2024 From: tft at uw.edu (Terrill Thompson) Date: Tue Mar 19 16:26:14 2024 Subject: [Accessibleweb] Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up, Thu 1/11/24 at 10 AM PT Message-ID: Hi everyone, It's time for our first monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up of the new year! Please join us for another informal and friendly Zoom meeting to discuss some interesting web accessibility challenges. Date: Thursday, January 11, 2024 Time: 10am - 11am Zoom URL: https://washington.zoom.us/s/93046164744 Meeting ID: 930 4616 4744 The agenda this month will be divided between two websites: *1. The UW Counseling Center * https://wellbeing.uw.edu/unit/counseling-center/ The "Need urgent help?" widget is not currently accessible with a keyboard. If it were to be accessible, where should it fall within the tab order? (We will also explore accessibility issues with the dialog that pops up when that widget is clicked). *2. Disability Resources for Students (DRS) * They have several specific questions related to unpublished content in the following areas: - FAQs - Linking to non-HTML Resources - Infographics - "How to" Videos Should be an interesting discussion. I hope to see you all there! Regards, Terrill --- Terrill Thompson (he/him) Manager, IT Accessibility Team UW-IT Accessible Technology Services University of Washington tft@uw.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amgolden at uw.edu Tue Jan 23 14:24:43 2024 From: amgolden at uw.edu (Anna Marie Golden) Date: Tue Mar 19 16:26:14 2024 Subject: [Accessibleweb] Video Accessibility webinar 02/14/24 Message-ID: Hi All, The next webinar in the Accessible Technology Webinar Series, Video Accessibility, is Wednesday, February 14th at 1:00pm. Gaby de Jongh and Terrill Thompson will be exploring the latest in video accessibility, particularly focusing on captioning and audio description. Please spread the word among folks in your departments who produce, influence, or otherwise have responsibility for your video assets. The event is free but requires registration. If you?d like to attend, please complete the Registration Form and we'll send the Zoom link prior to the event. Visit the Accessible Technology Webinar Series archives for past webinar presentations. Regards, Anna Marie Golden -- *Anna Marie Golden, MHCID* *Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design, Class of 2014* *IT Accessibility Specialist* *Accessible Technology Services, UW-IT* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pfa at umich.edu Mon Jan 29 14:00:56 2024 From: pfa at umich.edu (PF Anderson) Date: Tue Mar 19 16:26:14 2024 Subject: [Accessibleweb] Job Opportunity: UofM Library: Accessibility Lead Message-ID: I?m excited to share that The University of Michigan Library (Ann Arbor) is hiring an Accessibility Lead. This position, part of the Library?s Learning and Teaching division, will focus on maximizing the impact of the library and empowering learners at all levels by building sustainable, ethical, and mutually transformative relationships between people, collections, methods, and knowledge. It will oversee professional employees, advocate for resources, and manage budgets, while developing programs to meet service needs and lead the implementation of strategies for accessibility across the library. Applications are open until February 11, 2024 and further details can be found on the online job posting. Please apply and/or share widely with friends and colleagues you think might be interested! 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URL: From hadir at uw.edu Tue Feb 6 23:24:23 2024 From: hadir at uw.edu (Hadi Rangin) Date: Tue Mar 19 16:26:14 2024 Subject: [Accessibleweb] Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up, Thu 2/8/24 at 10 AM PT Message-ID: Hi everyone, It is almost time for our monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up! Please join us for another informal and friendly virtual meeting to discuss some accessibility challenges. Agenda This week we continue exploring the DRS unpublished content including Infographics and "How to" Videos pages. Specifically, they are seeking feedback on: * Taking Effective Breaks Any access related concerns including alt text, how to balance covering the information in html without making a page excessively long. * video tutorial page for students The best way to create accessible videos with limited budget. Reviewing your site/application for accessibility is the main component of this meet-up and we all learn from such reviews. If you have a topic you'd like to discuss or site you'd like to look at, please let me know or simply bring it to the meeting. Meeting info * What: Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meetup * When: Thursday February 8, 2024 10-11 AM PT * Where: https://washington.zoom.us/my/hadirangin * Meeting ID: 206 221 1532 About Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up Our meetings usually consist of two 30-minute segments. The first 30 minutes of our meetings are dedicated to casually reviewing your projects. This generally includes lots of hands-on testing and code review. If you are working on a project and would like to get accessibility feedback from your peers, please let us know and we will add it to the agenda. We always encourage you to bring your own sites and topics, as it is a great learning experience for everyone. Then for the last half of the meeting we have some topics we would like to bring to you to discuss, although we may not have time to cover all of them in depth. How to Join the Mailing List We send our announcements typically a week prior to the meetup through various internal mailing lists, including the accessibleweb mailing list - which is open to the public. Please subscribe to that list to receive the announcements if you haven't already done it yet. You can do so by accessing this link: https://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibleweb. Thanks, and looking forward to another engaging and fruitful discussion. Hadi Rangin (he/him) IT Accessibility Specialist Access Technology Center/ATS/UW-IT (206) 685-4144 hadir@uw.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Agenda * Alt text and profile photo descriptions Visually impaired people have a disadvantage when they are trying to choose a new doctor, compared to people who see the providers' photos, as they can't observe the visual characteristic of the doctors that can be gathered by looking at the photos. * Our colleagues from UW-Med are going to lead the discussion and seek answers for these questions: * Can Alt text provide an accessible solution for this problem? * If so, who should describe the visual characteristic of the providers and what characteristics should be included? Reviewing your site/application for accessibility is the main component of this meet-up and we all learn from such reviews. If you have a topic you'd like to discuss or site you'd like to look at, please let me know or simply bring it to the meeting. Meeting info * What: Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meetup * When: Thursday March 14, 2024 10-11 AM PT * Where: https://washington.zoom.us/my/hadirangin * Meeting ID: 206 221 1532 About Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up The Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability meet-up is a place for accessibility minded colleagues to casually reviewing and discussing your projects. This generally includes lots of hands-on testing and code review. If you are working on a project and would like to get accessibility feedback from your peers, please let us know and we will add it to the agenda. We always encourage you to bring your own sites and topics, as it is a great learning experience for everyone. How to Join the Mailing List We send our announcements typically a week prior to the meetup through various internal mailing lists, including the accessibleweb mailing list - which is open to the public. Please subscribe to that list to receive the announcements if you haven't already done it yet. You can do so by accessing this link: https://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibleweb. Thanks, and looking forward to another engaging and fruitful discussion. Hadi Rangin (he/him) IT Accessibility Specialist Access Technology Center/ATS/UW-IT (206) 685-4144 hadir@uw.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amgolden at uw.edu Tue Mar 26 16:44:17 2024 From: amgolden at uw.edu (Anna Marie Golden) Date: Tue Mar 26 16:51:03 2024 Subject: [Accessibleweb] Accessible Documents (Part 1) webinar 04/10/24 Message-ID: The next webinar in the Accessible Technology Webinar Series, *Accessible Documents (Part 1)*, is Wednesday, *April 10th* at *1:00pm*. This webinar is Part 1 of a two-part series. *Gaby de Jongh* of the IT Accessibility Team will explain the techniques for creating accessible documents in Microsoft Word and Google Docs. She will also cover using the built-in accessibility checker in Office, reviewing the tag tree of a PDF for accessibility, and provide an experience of what it is like to consume inaccessible content in a document. This is an especially good topic for folks who create electronic documents so please, spread the word! Part 2 will continue next month with a focus on the accessibility of slide presentations. The event is *free* but requires registration. If you?d like to attend, please complete the Registration Form and we'll send the Zoom link prior to the event. Visit the Accessible Technology Webinar Series archives for past webinar presentations. Regards, Anna Marie Golden -- *Anna Marie Golden, MHCID* *Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design, Class of 2014* *IT Accessibility Specialist* *Accessible Technology Services, UW-IT* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From accessibleweb at u.washington.edu Mon Apr 8 22:46:45 2024 From: accessibleweb at u.washington.edu (Hadi Rangin via Accessibleweb) Date: Mon Apr 8 22:48:08 2024 Subject: [Accessibleweb] Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up, Thu 4/11/24 at 10 AM PT Message-ID: Hello accessibility minded friends and colleagues, Please join us this Thursday 4/11/24 at 10 AM for another exciting, informal, and friendly Web Accessibility/Usability meet-up. Agenda Archiving newsletters in accessible format The UW CoMotion content team uses Marketo to build HTML email newsletters. To make these newsletters available on our website, they've used a browser plugin to convert each newsletter email to a PDF. This has resulted in complex, inaccessible PDFs. We're wondering if there's another way to bring accessible Marketo content to the website, other than manually building a web page that mirrors each newsletter. Feedback on Environmental Health & Safety new website EH&S is in the process of redesigning their new website and of course, with accessibility in mind. Colleagues and ATS teams are interested in getting your feedback on the overall design and selected features and components. Please join us and share your accessibility/usability feedback. Review website/applications. Reviewing your site/application for accessibility is the main component of this meet-up and we all learn from such reviews. As always, let me know if you would like to review your site/application for accessibility. Meeting info * What: Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meetup * When: Thursday April 11, 2024 10-11 AM PT * Where: https://washington.zoom.us/my/hadirangin * Meeting ID: 206 221 1532 About Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up The Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability meet-up is a place for accessibility minded colleagues to casually reviewing and discussing your projects. This generally includes lots of hands-on testing and code review. If you are working on a project and would like to get accessibility feedback from your peers, please let us know and we will add it to the agenda. We always encourage you to bring your own sites and topics, as it is a great learning experience for everyone. How to Join the Mailing List We send our announcements typically a week prior to the meetup through various internal mailing lists, including the accessibleweb mailing list - which is open to the public. Please subscribe to that list to receive the announcements if you haven't already done it yet. You can do so by accessing this link: https://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibleweb. Thanks, and looking forward to another engaging and fruitful discussion. Hadi Rangin (he/him) IT Accessibility Specialist Access Technology Center/ATS/UW-IT (206) 685-4144 hadir@uw.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is a continuation from last month where we discussed techniques for creating accessible electronic documents. The event is free but requires registration. If you?d like to attend, please complete the Registration Form and we'll send the Zoom link prior to the event. Visit the Accessible Technology Webinar Series archives for past webinar presentations. Regards, Anna Marie Golden -- *Anna Marie Golden, MHCID* *Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design, Class of 2014* *IT Accessibility Specialist* *Accessible Technology Services, UW-IT* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From accessibleweb at u.washington.edu Tue Apr 30 16:35:38 2024 From: accessibleweb at u.washington.edu (Anna Marie Golden via Accessibleweb) Date: Tue Apr 30 16:36:42 2024 Subject: [Accessibleweb] Registration is now open for UW GAAD 2024! Message-ID: *UW GAAD 2024* Each year, the UW commemorates Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) by offering a day of lectures, workshops, and other activities related to digital accessibility. In 2024, we will celebrate with a hybrid event, in person and on Zoom. - *Date*: May 16, 2024 - *Time*: 9:30am ? 1:00pm - *Location*: Odegaard 220 and virtual via Zoom The day will be divided into three main activities: 1. Keyboard Accessibility Activity: TABulous Game Session 2. Alt Text Activity: ALTernate Perceptions Contest 3. Accessibility Awards Luncheon: Awards Ceremony with Pizza See *GAAD 2024 * for event details. UW GAAD 2024 sessions are *free* and *open to the UW community*, but *registration* is required. Regards, Anna Marie Golden -- *Anna Marie Golden, MHCID* *Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design, Class of 2014* *IT Accessibility Specialist* *Accessible Technology Services, UW-IT* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: