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Monthly UW Web Accessibility and Usability Meetup
These monthly meetups, formerly known as “Explore with Hadi”, provide an opportunity for UW web developers and designers to discuss accessibility and usability issues in a relaxed, casual setting, and provide friendly feedback on each others’ web projects. We encourage you to bring your accessibility questions or just join us to see what others are working on. Meetings are hosted by Hadi Rangin, a web accessibility specialist with UW-IT Accessible Technology Services. Hadi has a Master’s degree in computer science and is a screen reader user himself, so these meetings are great opportunities to experience how your website might be experienced by someone using assistive technology.
Meetups are typically held on the 2nd Thursday of each month, 10:00am – 11:00am. The agenda and Zoom URL are announced a few days prior to the event on the AccessibleWeb@U email list (see below for details about the list). If you would like to attend and are not a subscriber to this list, please complete the Monthly Meetup Registration Form and we’ll send you the link.
Monthly UW Instruction Accessibility Meetup
Faculty and course designers are invited to join an informal, friendly conversation about making online components of courses accessible to students with disabilities. Ask questions about accessibility and universal design for learning (UDL), hear colleagues’ ideas, and share what is working for your own courses!
Meetings are hosted by Mary-Colleen Jenkins, an instruction accessibility specialist with Accessible Technology Services (ATS). Mary-Colleen is a former UW instructor herself, so this is a great opportunity to discuss logistics and how to set priorities for improving course accessibility without feeling overwhelmed.
Meetups are typically held on the 1st Tuesday of each month, 10:00am – 11:00am. They are open to interested members of the UW community, but require registration. Please register for the September 10th meetup to receive the Zoom link.
Accessible Technology Webinar Series
On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, we host a webinar on a popular topic related to IT accessibility. Here’s the schedule of upcoming topics in the series:
- Sep 11: Testing with Screen Readers
- Oct 9: Accessible Documents (Part 1): Word and Google Docs
- Nov 6: Accessible Presentations (Part 2): PowerPoint and Google Slides
- Dec 11: Accessibility in Procurement
Video recordings and links to resources are available on the Webinar Series Archives page.
Next webinar:
The next webinar in the Accessible Technology Webinar Series, Testing with Screen Readers, is Wednesday, September 11th at 1:00pm.
Hadi Rangin of the IT Accessibility Team will provide an overview of the major screen reading programs in the market. He’ll cover basic navigation commands, how to use a screen reader to interact with an application, and how to use a screen reader as a companion tool to verify accessibility issues.
Webinars are free but require registration. Register for the September 11th webinar to receive the Zoom link.
IT Accessibility Liaisons meetings
IT Accessibility Liaisons are people who represent their work unit, large or small, in a tri-campus movement to promote the procurement, development, and use of IT that is accessible to everyone. The growing network of Liaisons meets three times per year for a half-day training, typically in February, May, and November. Details about the next meeting will be posted here once they’re finalized. For more information on becoming a Liaison, see the IT Accessibility Liaisons page.
AccessibleWeb@U
AccessibleWeb@U is a community of UW web designers, developers, and other interested people who discuss and share ideas on accessible web design through their online discussion list.
- The email address for the group is accessibleweb@uw.edu. You can add or remove yourself from this list via the AccessibleWeb list info page.
- A complete collection of email discussions are available in the AccessibleWeb List Archives.