November 2, 2020 — W3C web standards are the foundation for building a web page to work well with Google, screen readers, and all assistive devices. This talk explains why the fundamentals we use for Google to index and rank pages are also the foundations for website accessibility.

November 2, 2020 — Rendere un sito accessibile richiede il coinvolgimento di tutti gli attori che operano nel web: i creatori di contenuti, i designer e, non ultimi, gli sviluppatori.
Anche se probabilmente meno visibile, il contributo che gli sviluppatori possono dare all’accessibilità è spesso essenziale, soprattutto per le persone che fanno uso di tecnologie assistive.
Senza entrare nei dettagli e senza fornire soluzioni chiavi in mano, scopriremo da dove possono partire gli sviluppatori che vogliono imparare a creare siti fruibili anche dalle persone con disabilità.

November 2, 2020 — La necessità di rendere le esperienze digitali accessibili a tutti dovrebbe essere una delle priorità di qualsiasi business quando si accinge a realizzare il proprio sito internet. Quali sono i motivi più importanti per cui l’accessibilità fa bene ai siti web delle imprese? E quali sono le prime 5 cose da fare subito per rendere un sito più accessibile?

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October 30, 2020 — Accessibility is a practice that touches on many aspects of good web design and development, including performance. This talk will highlight opportunities and techniques to improve your website or web app’s performance by embracing an accessible, inclusive mindset.

October 30, 2020 — You know your website should be accessible, but how can you achieve that? This session will get you started creating content that is available to all. I’ll review how to layout content on a web page so that it can be read by assistive technology, guidelines to creating sentences and paragraphs that are accessible, and how to include images, charts and infographics in a way that transmits information to those with sight impairments and reading challenges. I’ll also show you how you can include downloadable documents on your website. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDFs all can be accessible.

October 30, 2020 — We explain what the WCAG 2.1 guidelines are and why they are so important.

Then we will offer 11 easy and actionable steps that you can take as soon as you get home to help you become compliant.

We also go through and explain and give examples of each step so you will understand clearly.

Finally, we offer some links to free software that you can use to test your websites Section 508 compliance.

October 28, 2020 — One evening at a WordPress Meetup presentation in a northern valley of Los Angeles, an attendee turned and punched Joe A. Simpson, Jr, in the arm saying, “accessibility makes me sooooooo angry!” Why does baking even the most basic WCAG 2.0 guidelines into your project cycle create such a reaction?

In this presentation, we’ll debunk common misconceptions designers, developers, and business owners have and learn how advocating for access to all improves your site SEO, design, user experience, and function through interactive audience examples and discussion to ease the pain of compliance.

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September 29, 2020 — This talk explains the importance and value of advocating for accessibility. Learn how to add accessibility techniques to your processes. Learn how making sites accessible can increase revenue and grow audiences.

August 10, 2020

July 28, 2020 — Siempre hablamos de Accesibilidad, con mayúscula, y somos conscientes de que es necesaria.

Y siempre hacemos lo posible por cumplir, no usamos tipos de letra pequeños y seguimos las recomendaciones en lo referente a contraste de colores entre texto y fondo, al final de cuentas, si no lo hacemos no nos leen.

Pero, ¿realmente lo hacemos bien? ¿Tu web admite navegación por teclado?, ¿la has probado con un lector de voz? ¿y los menús?

Vicent Sanchis nos va a hablar de accesibilidad y responsabilidad. Doctor en Optometría y Ciencias de la Visión y desarrollador web especializado en accesibilidad en WordPress