Web Accessibility Meet-up Group, and Access Services Interest Group (ASIG) Meet-up
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Benjamin Gray, web accessibility specialist, is hosting a Web Accessibility Discussion Group on the third Thursday night of each month, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. going through April 20, 2023.
The program will take place in the Center for Accessibility at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, with an option to attend over Zoom.
Starting with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), we'll build an understanding of Web accessibility from the ground up! WCAG are a set of rules and suggestions about how to make the web more accessible to people with disabilities. They are part of a series of web accessibility guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium, the main international standards organization for the Internet.
The discussion will allow us to gain an understanding of the general essence or purpose of the WCAG, how to navigate and interpret them, and why good HTML is such an important part of it (HTML is the basic language that the web is written in). We'll also include other topics like PDF accessibility and accessibility testing.
Join us for this month's discussion, either in-person or virtually!
*Automatic captioning will be provided in the Zoom room
To register, please email Patrick Timony at james....@dc.gov or call 202-727-2142
For reasonable accommodations, email DCPLa...@dc.gov; or call 202-727-2142.
Do you have questions about accessibility or assistive technology in universities and libraries and want to share your problem solving process? The Adaptive Services Interest Group (ASIG) of the District of Columbia Library Association (DCLA) is holding another meeting on Tuesday, April 4th, 2023, 11 a.m. to 12 noon, over Zoom.ASIG will support conversation on strategies and best practices for accessibility services at libraries and other institutions. Invited are librarians, accessibility and assistive technology professionals and users from around the DC/MD/VA area who want to problem solve in a shared environment. Please feel free to share this announcement appropriately. Topics of discussion could include any of the following:
- Universal Design
- Best practices in virtual services due to Covid
- Are there audio loops incorporated into the design of buildings?
- What types of effective communication are offered to the public?
- Distributing adaptive technology service remotely
- Marketing adaptive technology services to different communities
- Converting materials to alternative formats
- Evaluation of new adaptive technologies
- Reports from national AT conferences
- Local AT resource providers
- Cloud-based AT notetaking solutions (e.g., Glean, Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai)
- Smartpens (e.g., Livescribe),
- Built-in options (e.g., Microsoft, Google)
- Tools for executive functioning (e.g., Tiimo)
- Best practices in virtual services due to Covid
- The move of AT to personal devices
To register for the Zoom Meeting, email DCPLa...@dc.gov or call 202-727-2142 to request a link.
For reasonable accommodations, email DCPLa...@dc.gov; or call 202-727-2142.