Are you struggling to bring your website into compliance with laws, policies and guidelines on accessibility? Do you need to know more about the ADA, WCAG, and Section 508? Do you want to know more about how to make your website work for everyone? We will discuss how to make websites accessible. We will discuss how accessibility is often broken and how to avoid that. We will discuss practical tools for developers, designers and content editors. Take aways: 1. What to do to make your site/app accessible 2. What not to do 3. Where to find help
Speaker/Host
Chris Patterson is the Technical Lead for the Disabilities and Computing Program (DCP) and the Research Data and Web Platforms (RDWP) Group of the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC). She has 29 years of experience in full stack web development. Chris is a Senior Accessibility Engineer and has served as an accessibility evangelist for UCLA since the 1990's. She helps other web developers and content editors understand what it takes to make a website work for everyone. Chris serves as the Chair of the systemwide Electronic Accessibility Committee (EAC) and is the UC Tech Ambassador for UCLA.