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Hello from San Diego!

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Hello from DC!

So excited to be here! Accessibility is so important! Hello from MD!

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hello from Raleigh, north carolina

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Berkeley

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Hi from NYC!

Hi From Denver!

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los angeles

Lucy from London, hello! :)

10pm :)

All panelists and attendees

Hi Beth, yes it will be recorded and sent out in a follow up email!

awesome

Hello all. I would love to connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonchristmas

Hello! Welcome to today’s “Designing for All: Accessibility, Usability and Inclusion” event.

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I love connecting on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/santinacroniser/

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No problem, Beth! We understand, it’s a busy time :) We’ll make sure you get a recording!

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years ago I wanted to get into UX design/ assibility for products and website but it didnt exist unless you were a Industrial Designer degree

Thank you for sharing this John. I am legally blind in my right eye, and it’s been a big thing that has held me back in a lot of ways. I’m excited to do UX Design to help create products for better accessibility for everyone :)

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Further proof that GA beings great professionals together!

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Hi, yes! We will be sending out a recording with the transcription in a follow up email!

For folks asking: here's the meetup, and yes anyone can join us! We'd love to have you! https://www.meetup.com/a11ychi/

Hey bill! Would you mind tossing that in the Q&A so it doesn’t get lost in the chat? Thank you!!!!

wcag

A link to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for folks who are unfamiliar: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/

VPAT

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template

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Perhaps Emily can collect and share our Twitter handles? Mine is @santinacroniser

Yessss, so excited to learn about some quick solutions I can implement in the next few weeks!

And appropriate typography, please

aria

@Santina — we can absolutely share Twitter handles in our follow up email! If anyone else wants to share their twitter I will share it in the follow up (along with your linkedin page as well)

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Yes, so smart to speak $$ in our corporate business world

Hi Lisa, check out the new guidelines in the WCAG 2.1 about mobile accessibility!

To one of the Q&A questions, we've used https://wave.webaim.org/extension/ for some of our audits

I always say that all users can benefit from accessible design, not just people with disabilities

The AODA in Ontario is a nightmare. The legislation seems wonderful; however, the implementation is very problematic.

What was that statistic again?

Would love to read the study!

A rising tide lifts all boats!

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@na

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^My sister's name is natalie and her nickname is Na. Hahaha.

suggestion for the folk looking for a way to develop a career in accessibility: Think about which company or service industry could get much better with implementing the accessibility approaches in their product or service

Hey Krystin — Thank you so much for the feedback! We are working on this internally!! I promise it is in the works!

@Rachel Novick

Thank you!

Thank-you so much all!

Um … the AODA was passed in 2005. It is not new.

We will make sure we include these in our follow up as well!

What is this resource again? WebAim?

https://webaim.org

drawing your attention to an amazing book that highlights importance in re-building the world to account for every body; What a body can do by Sara Hendren. Not necessarily focused on digital accessibility, but accessibility in our everyday lives. It’s truly fantastic, would highly recommend.

I will definitely take book recommendations too!

Thanks Rachel!!

^Yes, can't wait to read Sara's book!

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here it is :) https://www.amazon.com/What-Can-Body-Do-Built/dp/073522000X

Bye everyone

^ If you can consider ordering that book from any smaller or locally-owned book stores instead of Amazon, I highly recommend helping out your local economy that way! <3

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absolutely @Grace! if anyone interested just google’s the book, a few other options will pop up :)

Thank you!!!

This has been a wonderful discussion, really appreciating the panel & different points of view, and all the resources everyone has shared. Thanks!

Thanks for all the great information and resources.

This has been very helpful discussion. Thank you all so much for the time you’ve put in and express yourselves openly. :)

This has been so insightful, interesting, and uplifting. Thank you for all the great information and for the work you do!

Thanks!

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Thank you. This was really insightful! Thanks to the panel for your time.

Learned very helpful information. I greatly appreciate everyone’s time!

Thanks to Covid now the events are all global :)

WeCo also sponsors a MeetUP: Accessibility Twin Cites MeetUp!

Streamed Live. All welcome

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Fen, you're a great facilitator, and all speakers were very helpful. Looking forward to the resources. I hope eventually we CENTER UX / design etc. around those currently marginalized and this won't be a "special interest" siloed topic allowed by the powers that be, but integrated into everything we do in all industries :) Stay whole !

Thank you all so much!

Thank you all!

Thank-you everyone, this has been a very useful session :)

Thank you all so much!!

Thank you all so much!

Thank you!

Thanks for joining us today! A recording of this webinar will be sent out in the next few days.If you have any questions about GA, please email denver@ga.co. We look forward to seeing you next time!

Thank you all!

Completely agree, Amanda

Thank you, all! Really great discussion and resources!

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Thank you so much :)

Thank you!!

Thanks All!

Thank you ! Thumbs Up!

Bye

Thank you!

Thank you so much!!

Bye!

Thank you!!