A11y Online - With speakers Glafira Zhur & Robbie Moore

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Web accessibility affects everyone who uses the internet, but unfortunately, it’s still something that’s too often overlooked by companies and development teams. The good news is that there is a growing accessibility community full of people who are eager to share ideas and discuss ways we can learn and improve as an industry.
A11y Online is a remote meetup and community that will hopefully bring people together from all over the world to share ideas and experiences.
Debuting on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we have a great couple of talks from talented speakers. 
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<H2>Talk 1: 'Here I am, your beloved popup!' by Glafira Zhur</H2>
Imagine you're walking through a website and your mouse dies suddenly. And at the same moment a popup appears on the page. Of course, you're an experienced PC user and you can manage this with just one ESC press and continue to explore the web page with the Tab key. What could go wrong?!
No magic, only the dark side of reality.
Glafira Zhur is a Senior Frontend Developer at SpurIT. She enjoyed Frontend since she was a kid, and in 2008 she decided to apply for a Computer science degree in Minsk, Belarus. That's where her career started! 
Now, Glafira is an active community member. She is a part of the @minskcss and @minskjs meetups, and a committee member at @beerjssummit and @VoxxedMinsk. Also, she created the Minsk branch of the well known Accessibility Club community.
Glafira is happy to talk about the accessibility and she does her best to spread the #a11y ideas all over the world! 
Follow Glafira on Twitter here: <A HREF="https://twitter.com/GlafiraZhur" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@GlafiraZhur</A>
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<H2>Talk 2: 'Orange is Illegal: 20 A11y Hack for Web Designers' by Robbie Moore </H2>
News Flash: Web Designers Hate Designing for Accessibility! 
Why? It's tedious, confusing and limits expression.
This talk leapfrogs the history, guidelines and reasons behind web accessibility and hops right into 20 accessibility hacks for web designers. This "show and tell" format shares before/after examples and explains why the changes are important – sans the boring backstory. In the end, you'll receive a handy reference with the 20 hacks so you can start making bold, clear, accessible websites.
Robbie is the creative director at 3 Media Web, a Boston-based WordPress agency and founder of Interiam, a web accessibility company. He considers himself a unicorn’s grandad — with a skill set that encompasses design, coding, branding, print and strategy.
He’s taught design and typography while creating award-winning campaigns for dozens of U.S. colleges and universities.
These days Robbie leads companies in a variety of business verticals — from biopharma startups to tech PR firms — through web makeovers, rebranding and integrated online marketing strategies and now: web accessibility.
In his free time, he loves cycling, chilling w/his puppies and vegging out on NFL network, Caribbean Life or World’s Dumbest reruns with his wife, Katie.
Follow Robbie on Twitter here: <A HREF="https://twitter.com/socia11y" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@socia11y</A>
 
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<H2>Meetup Details</H2>
There are 100 tickets available for the meetup, which will be held over Zoom at 7:30 pm BST (GMT+1). All ticket holders will be sent a Zoom invite on the day of the meetup. If you get a ticket but can't make the event, please make sure you cancel on Eventbrite so that someone else can attend the meetup. 
We will be using Slack to host our conversations, both during and outside of the meetups. Please use the link below to join. Even if you are unable to get tickets this time, please feel free to join the Slack group and join the conversation.
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<H2>Captioning by MyClearText</H2>
We are extraordinarily grateful to MyClearText for sponsoring the meet-up by providing live captioning or the event.
To find out more about them and their services, check out their website here: http://mycleartext.com/
 
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