[Nfbmd] Fwd: Web Accessibility Meetup - Baltimore April 9, 2011

[Tony Olivero]

The following message may be of interest to those who are web
developers. Karl's message gives the details, but I am also pasting
the text of the attached word document below his signature in case it
does not come through as an attachment.

Tony

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From: Karl Groves <karlgroves at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:04:10 -0500
Subject: Web Accessibility Meetup - Baltimore April 9, 2011
To: Karl Groves <karlgroves at gmail.com>

Inspired by the success of Accessibility Meetups being held in
Washington DC, Boston, and elsewhere, I will be holding regularly
occurring meetups in Baltimore at the Library for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped.  These meetups will follow the mold of those
which occur in DC, where each meetup will have a speaker who comes to
speak to the group about a specific topic of interest to those
involved in (or wish to learn about) web accessibility.

The first meeting will be held April 9th 2011. I will be the speaker
at that meeting and will be discussing web accessibility testing and
tools. It is my intent that these meetings be technology & vendor
neutral, and therefore my talk on the 8th will mention characteristics
of testing tools and will list several tools, although I do plan on
giving a (rather quick) discussion of FireEyes.

The Library is located at 415 Park Ave., Baltimore, MD 21201. The main
number is 410.230.2424.

I hope you will be able to join me and would like very much if you
could pass this information on to others who you feel might find these
meetups beneficial.

Also, I am looking for anyone willing to come speak at these meetups.
If you or someone you know would be interested, please get in touch.


Thanks.

-- 
Karl Groves

---Text of Attached Document---
Web Accessibility Interest Group

Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped announces
the commencement of a new interest group. The purpose of the group is
to foster a new dialog for web accessibility.
The plan is for the group to meet monthly at the library on the second
Saturday from noon until two.  The first meeting will be held April
9th 2011. The Library is located at 415 Park Ave., Baltimore, MD
21201. The main number is 410.230.2424.
The group will be facilitated by Karl Groves, Director, Training of
Deque Systems, Inc. and will welcome of web developers of all levels.
There will be people attending who are versed in this technology and
people who want to learn how to code web sites for optimum
accessibility.
The first two monthly topics will be “Tools and processes for
assessing accessibility” and “Research findings in the web
accessibility area.
Future meetings will seek speakers and look to the group itself for presenters.
Anyone interested in this group may contact Mollyne Honor at
410.230.2456 or mrhonor at lbph.lib.md.us.
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