About the event
The 2019 meetup in Düsseldorf, our first one in the beautiful hometown of the beyond tellerrand conference, was a huge success — not least to trivago being a dream host for our awesome community. We tried to repeat this in 2020, but unfortunately we had to cancel our meetup #9 due to the upcoming COVID pandemic.
One and a half years later we are finally back with a new, hybrid format: Supported by beyond tellerrand founder Marc Thiele himself we'll bring you the first ever streaming event in the Accessibility Club's history. As this is something we have to get used to ourselves, we'll stick to running this as a talk / presentation based event.
Schedule
Time | Agenda item |
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- | Opening |
- | Presentation 1: Could browsers fix more accessibility problems automatically?Accessibility best practices and standards are great, but realistically, they don’t reach everybody. Part of the web is still inaccessible to people with disabilities. What if browsers could give users the power to override the web, and fix accessibility errors in web content whenever they can? In this talk, I will discuss accessibility features in today’s browsers and share what else could be done. Performed by |
- | Presentation 2 (TBA) Performed by |
- | Presentation 3: All Sizzle, No SteakWhat you see you already have. In the US, there are more than a dozen companies claiming that if you add their widget to your site, it will automatically become accessible. They’re now starting to make their way to the EU. In this talk, I’ll show that the things they claim to add to your site already exist on your user’s computer and, furthermore, work better than these widgets. Performed by |
- | Discussion (TBA) |
- | Closing |
Performers
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Hidde de Vries
Freelance front-end developer, excited about web standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and accessibility
- Internet
- https://hidde.blog
- Mastodon
- @hdv@front-end.social
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Molly Watt
Assistive technology advocate, consultant, speaker, author and inclusion activist
- Internet
- http://www.mollywatt.com
- @MollyWattTalks
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Karl Groves
Creator of the Tenon.io Web Accessibility testing platform
- Internet
- http://www.karlgroves.com
- Mastodon
- @karlgroves@mastodon.social
Location
We're delighted to announce that this time the City of Düsseldorf offered us to run the event at the brand new municipal library, the Zentralbibliothek Düsseldorf, which just opened its doors on November 6th, 2021 (German language article).
The location is fully wheelchair-accessible (with accessible toilets next to the meetup room). Service animals are allowed and welcome. If needed, a quiet room is available as well. We will print and put up some signage that will guide you from the entrance on the ground floor to the meetup room on the second floor.
Important: The "2G rule" applies, i.e the City of Düsseldorf requires all people who want to enter a municipal building to prove immunization through a full vaccination or recovery. You will not be able to attend the event on-site otherwise.
We won't provide snacks and beverages at the event this time, but there's a small café on the same floor which should fulfil your wishes.
Hosts
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Joschi Kuphal
Designer, programmer, lecturer, event organiser and restless tinkerer from Nuremberg
Joschi is working on the web since the mid 90s and founded the web agency tollwerk in 2000, which he continues to shape to this day. He has shared leadership of tollwerk with his team in an equal, cooperative and self-organizing way since 2022. He launched a couple of event series like the border:none and Material conferences, the Accessibility Club and the CoderDojo Nürnberg. He's occasionally running IndieWebCamps, hosting the monthly accessibility webcast technica11y and used to be one of the driving forces behind the Nürnberg Digital Festival.
- Internet
- https://jkphl.is
- Mastodon
- @jkphl@mastodon.social
- joschikuphal
- Github
- @jkphl
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Marc Thiele
Marc is the founder and organiser of the renowned design and web conference beyond tellerrand. Marc runs and organises community events since more than 20 years and is co-founder of Smashing Conference, an international web conference of Smashing Magazine, where he is the head of the supervisory board also.
- Internet
- https://marcthiele.com
- @marcthiele
- Github
- @marcthiele