W4A Hackathon on Accessibility of JupyterLab

[Volker Sorge]

W4A Hackathon on Accessibility of JupyterLab

at the Lighthouse, San Francisco, May 15 & 16 2019

(Sign up here)

The Web-4-All conference is the premiere venue for all aspects of web

accessibility research. It will be held this year in conjunction with the Web

conference May 13 & 14 in San Francisco.  Traditionally W4A has a post

conference hackathon in which some of the delegates identify and tackle

accessibility problems in widely used open source software libraries.  In

previous years we have worked on libraries for online presentations or online

assessment platforms for HR departments. The hackathon often resulted in

valuable contributions, important patches and successful pull requests for these

libraries.

This year the hackathon will be organised jointly with PEAT, The Partnership on

Employment & Accessible Technology (https://www.peatworks.org/), and the DIAGRAM

Center, a Benetech Global Literacy initiative, on production and provision of

accessible educational materials (https://diagramcenter.org). We are sponsored

by the Microsoft Cooperation (https://microsoft.com) and hosted by the

Lighthouse For The Blind And Visually Impaired in San Francisco

(http://lighthouse-sf.org/).

For this year we have decided to put our main focus on accessibility of

JupyterLab, as it is a web technology for interactive programming and

data visualisation that is widely used in industry and education.

So if you are a Jupyter developer, how can you contribute?

# Before the Hackathon:

Over the next two weeks we will setup the environment for participants of the

hackathon as well as identify and collate accessibility issues that can be

tackled at the hackathon. We therefore welcome 

* Contributions in the form of feedback on the setup, environment and any other

  technical help.

* If you are aware of accessibility issues or can help us triage them in terms

  of feasibility for a hackathon format, please let us know or file issues directly

  at https://github.com/diagram-codesprint/jupyterlab

# During the Hackathon:

## In person:

If you want to participate in person for the full hackathon, please sign up here:

https://forms.gle/R3zwppCbe7T1kMiD8

Attendance is free, catering will be provided, but places are limited, so please

sign up as soon as possible.

If you work or live in the area and have a couple of hours to spare during the

hackathon (day, evening, or night) please get in touch with us and we can surely

accommodate you.

## Online:

If you want to participate in the hackathon remotely, please let us know and we

can bring you in via video conferencing (Skype, Hangout, Zoom, Appear.in, etc.)

We will have one or multiple dedicated slack channels online during the

hackathon. In particular, we will have one channel dedicated to technical

questions and problems, where help from developers will be appreciated. So if

you can spare some time during the two days of the hackathon and be active on

these channels you could make an invaluable contribution.

Our main slack channel will be: https://web4allhackathon2019.slack.com/

but others will be created and announced throughout the event.

For more information please also see

https://w4a.info/2019/hackathon or https://github.com/diagram-codesprint/Web4AllHackathon2019

Or contact us at

gc2...@w4a.info or in...@diagramcenter.org