In Search of Speakers
We are looking for speakers for the next few months for our events.
If you have a topic you want to talk about please contact us at info@accessibilitydc.org with any talk ideas.
You don't have to be local to the Washington, DC or Batlimore, MD area, since we can Skype you in or some other means of video.
Date and Location
We have monthly accessibility meet-ups for Accessibility DC at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library here in Washington, DC, normally on the third Tuesday of the month. This months talk will be on October 18, 2011, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.
The Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Library is located at:
901 G St NW, Room 215
Washington,
DC
20001-4531
Register to Attend
Please make sure to register to attend the Accessibility DC meet-up so we have an idea how many people are attending.
Event Schedule
Below is a breakdown of the schedule and how the upcoming meeting. Would greatly appreciate it if you can make sure you are on time so we can get started on time.
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM - Welcome everyone.
6:45 PM - 8:15 PM - This month's Accessibility DC meet-up will have a talk by Aaron Jorbin and John F. Croston III demo of his event registration prototype web application.
BIO:
Aaron Jorbin is an engineer with Clearspring http://clearspring.com/ where he works on AddThis http://addthis.com/ and a WordPress Core Contributor http://wordpress.org/. He has spoken to multiple User Groups and at WordCamps in four time zones. When he's not busy creating and fixing bugs, Aaron helps run an educational simulation conference for over 1500 college students. He'll gladly toast to the GPL any day of the week and happily will discuss whisky, quality beer, or the upper peninsula of Michigan with anyone that wants.
DESCRIPTION:
When working for a technology startup, you have to decide on priorities. Often, accessibility is something that ends up at the bottom. This is the story of how we moved accessibility up in our priorities and the decisions and sacrifices we made that resulted in over nine million websites becoming more accessible. In the end, I hope that you will learn how to get better organizational buy in for accessibility so even if it's only one site that is better off, your users are better off.
Blog - http://aaron.jorb.in
Twitter - twitter.com/aaronjorbin
John F Croston III will be doing a small demo of his prototype event registration web application to get feedback from the audience about the work flow, accessibility, any suggestions, etc.
8:15 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing remarks, clean-up, and information about after event wanderings. We will also be looking for more ideas of what talks people want to here and/or give for the next meeting.
Talk Ideas
We are always looking for someone to lead a discussion or presentation about anything accessibility related for the group. Please contact info@accessibilitydc.org with any talk ideas you would be willing to do.
Thanks,
John F Croston III - (jfc iii)
Twitter - @jfc3
Cell - 703-587-2458