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Recipe for Accessibility: Limiting Ingredients for Faster Design: Gen Herres

October 5, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Free
Recipe for Accessibility: Limiting Ingredients for Faster Design with Gen Herres on Thursday, October 5 at 10 AM Central.
How to use tools & procedures to significantly speed up the design process and produce accessible designs, even when the designers don’t have an accessibility background. A walk-through showing how to work with designers who have no accessibility background to get designs created that meet WCAG criteria.
These meetups take place via Zoom and are live captioned. You must register to attend via Zoom.

About Gen Herres

Gen Herres is the owner of Anphira, LLC, and organizes the Baltimore WordPress meetup group. Before getting into WordPress development more than a decade ago, Gen was a developer for Boeing on the B-1 Bomber and a lecturer at Ohio State University in the computer science department.

Gen has been featured in podcasts and won the 2022 Member of the Year award in the #1 WordPress community. She is very active in WordPress groups, encouraging other developers & designers. She has been incorporating accessibility into websites for a couple of years now and is a strong advocate of processes that move accessibility to earlier points in a project and make accessibility easier to understand for novices.

Event Information

Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsors:

Accessibility & Accommodations

This meetup will be held virtually over Zoom and live captioned, thanks to our sponsors. Slide links will be provided when applicable, and presenters are encouraged to make slides as accessible as possible with alternative text for images, etc.

We’re working to secure sponsors so that we can offer ASL interpretation.

All are welcome to attend. If you need specific accommodations to make this meetup work for you, please contact us and we will try our best to accommodate you.

Code of Conduct

Please note that this group is a welcoming space for all. As this event is part of the official WordPress Meetup program, all attendees must follow the WordPress Online Code of Conduct.

By RSVPing to this meetup, you agree to abide by these guidelines. If you have concerns that the Online Code of Conduct is not being followed, don’t hesitate to get in touch with an organizer.

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Live Captions