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Fall–Winter 2024/2025: Accessibility Study Group

Join us this fall and winter to learn about Accessibility for Developers. The UW Front-end Technologies Community of Practice will be facilitating study sessions focused on the topic of Accessibility for Developers. We will be using a course from Deque University.

The first session will be a 3-week series will be on Tuesdays at 2 p.m., starting on December 3. The sessions will be conducted virtually.

The second session will be a 4-week series will begin in January. More details to come.

Good to know:

  • Working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Some Git experience

More details and registration link on the Accessibility Study Group page. The study group will take place in lieu of the regular FET CoP meetings. There will be no meeting in November.

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 now held at a new time: On the 4th Tuesday of each month, 11:00am – Noon. 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 contact us by sending an email to help@uw.edu or by submitting our Accessibility Consultation Form (requires a UW NetID) 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.

NEW! Instruction Accessibility Meetups will meet at a new time in 2025

Aside from the first meeting of 2025, on Monday, January 13th, we typically meet on the 1st Tuesday of each month, from 12:00 – 1:00 pm. Feel free to eat lunch while we meet! All meetups are open to interested members of the UW community but require registration. Please register for the January 13th meetup to receive the Zoom link. The topic is "New Year, Fresh Start: Setting Your Accessibility Goals for 2025."

Accessible Technology Webinar Series

We currently have no new webinars scheduled, but video recordings and links to resources from past webinars are available on the Webinar Series Archives page.

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.