Global Accessibility Awareness Day workshop deck

Intros and activites deck for GAAD workshop for CTFEDs (https://www.meetup.com/ctfeds/events/245587180/)

Transcript

1. Global Accessibility Awareness Day Workshop
2. Thursday 17th May Global Accessibility Awareness Day globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org or google GAAD
3. Us looking at our stuff ! ➜ " ➜ #truestory
4. So we became… The Empathy Labradors Nicola du Toit - @sophdex Steve Barnett - @maxbarners
5. ✋ = Also:
6. ✨ ACTIVITY: Ola! Introduce yourself to someone new
7. What we’re going to learn 1. How people interact with our sites 2. (At least!) one thing we can improve
9. “The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.” — Tim Berners-Lee
10. ❤ Inclusive Design is about designing for the diversity of our users
11. ❤ Accessibility is the specifics of the implementation WCAG, WAI-ARIA
12. Get ready to move... !
13. Ability + Barrier = Disability
14. ✨ ACTIVITY: Draw a ❤ Friend? Parent? Colleague?
15. Disability is a spectrum, not a binary
16. Examples of barriers
17. There are other spectrums we could consider too
18. Device Screen Hardware Browser
19. Network Speed Latency Cost
20. Myth busting !
21. Inclusive Design ✘ People with disabilities are not our target market.
22. ✔ Disability is a spectrum, not a binary. ✔ A disability can be permanent, temporary, or contextual.
23. Inclusive Design ✘ It’s boring to do.
24. ✔ It’s part of high quality, professional, work. ✔ It’s being a superhero to our users. ✔ It gives us more, happier, customers.
25. Inclusive Design ✘ It’s too difficult to do.
26. ✔ It gets easier with practice, like any new thing. ✔ Part of our job is continuous learning and improvement.
27. Break!☕"
28. The Main Event 3 activity sessions Plan for after today
29. Useful links Activities bit.ly/emplab401 Resources bit.ly/emplab400
30. ✨ ACTIVITY: body parts Eyes Arms Braaaaains Network
31. Round 1 Grab your stuff, move to another table. Pick an activity. Do it. Repeat!
32. Round 1: review What was the most important thing? Who might this help? Write it on the poster
33. Round 2 Grab your stuff, move to a new table. Pick an activity. Do it. Repeat!
34. Round 2: review What was the most important thing? Who might this help? Write it on the poster
35. Break!☕"
36. Round 3 Grab your stuff, move to a new table. Pick an activity. Do it. Repeat!
37. Round 3: review What was the most important thing? Who might this help? Write it on the poster
38. Review All The Things Tour the posters
39. “It doesn't have to be perfect, just a little bit better than yesterday" — Leonie Watson
40. ✨ ACTIVITY: Hey, buddy! Grab a pen and a card
41. What will you do? When will you do it? Where will you do it? Who will be involved? How will you do it? Why do this?
42. Share your goal with someone new If you want to, swap contact details
43. Celebratory hand gestures! ! or
44. ✨ ACTIVITY: facilitator feedback What’s one thing we could do differently? Write it on a sticky note
45. Don't Forget! Thursday 17th May Global Accessibility Awareness Day
46. Thanks! Nicola du Toit - @sophdex Steve Barnett - @maxbarners