Let's Get Accessible @ Tech Week 2020
29 July 2020 - "Let's Get Accessible!" at Tech Week is an evening of lightning talks discussing digital accessibility and needs and preferences of users with disabilities.
Come and enjoy an evening of lightning talks discussing the following accessibility topics:
Topic 1: Towards Possibility! Living in a VUCA world where volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity are the norm, nothing has made this clearer to us than the dramatic impact of COVID 19. To create a truly accessible society for all we need a new way to think about the world, and that new frame is the Possibility world view!
Speaker: Minnie Baragwanath, Global Centre of Possibility
Topic 2: Even Old Typists … A professional communicator, speaker and former typist who resisted changing her inaccessible ways for many years until she found sound, logical reasons to do so. Now j keen to pass those reasons onto you.
Speaker: Kylee Maloney, Professional Speaker and Communicator on Inclusive Events and Accessible Documents
Topic 3: Top 5 a11y mistakes I used to make Common mistakes that many make when getting started in addressing accessibility within large teams and how to avoid them.
Speaker: Maz Hermon, UX/UI developer at Trade Me.
Topic 4: Why yes, I also need a screen reader Lived experience of a sighted screen reader user and how he has used his condition to an advantage.
Speaker: Carl Non, Coach & Scrum Master at ASB
Topic 5: Finding the needle in the haystack: Helping web accessibility practitioners understand and deliver on accessibility Guidelines for making websites accessible to people with diverse abilities have been published in New Zealand for nearly 20 years. For the last 17 years, it’s been mandatory for core NZ government organisations to meet requirements for accessibility. Despite this, and even though digital accessibility is crucial to the health, safety and human rights of disabled people, year after year public sector websites fail to meet the requirements, continuing to provide government information and services with basic and critical accessibility issues. Looking at this problem from the perspective of practitioners, 3 questions Tamsin’s team are seeking to answer will be discussed.
Speaker: Tamsin Ewing, Content Designer and Web Accessibility advisor at DIA