Closed nguyen-jenn closed 1 year ago
Questions:
How can we, as UX practitioners start looking to incorporate accessibility standards in our practice? Advice for UX Researchers, UX Designers, UX Writers. Would the advice/approach be similar or different?
How can teams cross-collaborate across different domains (examples: UR’ers, PMs, Devs, other stakeholders) to make accessibility requirements a ‘must have’ rather than a ‘nice to have’?
MeetUp Details: Slack communication with Admin:
:mega: Mark your Calendars! Ciara(Kiki) Salmon will be visiting the UI/UX Community of Practice on 2023-04-26, 6PM PST! :computer: Topic: Accessibility in UX :bust_in_silhouette:About: Ciara (Kiki) Salmon is a user experience researcher at a contract agency who conducts research for companies such as Google. :wave: LinkedIn :question: Please post your questions in this GitHub issue :arrow_left: Thank You! :stopwatch: Register in advance for this webinar: https://codeforamerica.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ytpQZroFT6CzR3onPz8Qkw After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Questions:
Working with Accessibility in Career
What defines Accessibility
Opinion on Accessibility
New Slack Announcement with Meetup Link
:mega: Mark your Calendars! Ciara(Kiki) Salmon will be visiting the UI/UX Community of Practice on 2023-04-26! :computer: Topic: Accessibility in UX :bust_in_silhouette:About: Ciara (Kiki) Salmon is a user experience researcher at a contract agency who conducts research for companies such as Google. :wave: LinkedIn :question: Please post your questions in this GitHub issue :arrow_left: :memo: Make sure to RSVP and register for the zoom webinar at this link :arrow_left: Thank you! UI/UX CoP co-leads @Jennifer Nguyen @Julia Gab @Aparna Gopal
What options are there for accessibility for data science? eg, graphs cannot have effective alt text
Can you talk about the jump from academic research to your research at google. How did you make that leap and what insights might you offer about this process?
What do you think of getting 508 Certification training?
Besides the financial benefits accessibility brings that you mentioned, how do you advocate for accessible design to clients or stakeholders who are insistent on specific visual designs that aren’t accessible?
How do you make sure the product team incorprates accessibility early on?
What are technologies you're keeping an eye on at the forefront of accessibility development? eg ChatGPT4 for auto generated alt text
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We need to create a list of questions for our guest speaker Ciara(Kiki) Salmon attending on 2023-04-26.
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Slack Announcement (edit this)
:mega: Mark your Calendars! **Ciara(Kiki) Salmon** will be visiting the UI/UX Community of Practice on **2023-04-26**! :computer: **Topic:** **Accessibility in UX** ? Please post **your questions** in this [GitHub issue](https://github.com/hackforla/UI-UX/issues/428) :arrow_left: :arrow_down: :bust_in_silhouette:**About:** Ciara (Kiki) Salmon is a user experience researcher at a contract agency who conducts research for companies such as Google. :wave: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciara-salmon/) Thank you! UI/UX CoP co-leads @ Jennifer Nguyen @ Julia Gab @ Aparna GopalSpeaker Bio
Ciara (Kiki) Salmon is a user experience researcher at a contract agency who conducts research for companies such as Google. She has her undergraduate in cognitive psychology with emphasis in linguistics and her masters in occupational therapy. She practiced as a clinician prior to transitioning into the UX space and now specializes in accessibility. Previously Ciara has had volunteered for code for America through the HFLA and Code for San Jose brigades. She primarily focuses on qualitative research but has began expanding into mixed method research.