Join us for a special event co-sponsored by A11ySea, the Seattle Area Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup.

Devon Persing, an accessibility specialist at Shopify, will introduce how content strategy intersects with digital accessibility, talk about common disabilities that can impact how people interact with and understand content, and provide an overview of how popular assistive technologies interact with content on the web.

Jennifer Reilly, a UX writer at Google, will present a short walk-through of Material Design’s best practices for inclusive writing, including tips on:

• using content hierarchy to make UI text easier to navigate via screen reader
• writing clear, concise accessibility text (for example, ARIA labels and alt text)
• creating links that can stand on their own

She will also share some top resources for learning more about inclusive design.

Sierra Seeborn, an interaction designer at Google, will briefly describe her experience ramping up as an interaction designer, and share resources that have been critical to that journey.

After brief presentations and discussion with our speakers, we will use breakout rooms to apply what we've learned by looking at some sites and discussing in smaller groups.