Perth Accessibility Meetup Group

The Perth Web Accessibility Camp is back for it’s 6th year! We welcome everyone to join us for a day of learning and sharing…

Given that things are likely to get busier as Christmas approaches, we’re opening up a Call for Presentations now so you can send in an idea for a presentation, then relax knowing it’s already in the mix. Last year the demand was strong so if you want to make sure yours gets into the programme, send your idea in early!

A Curtin University Senior Research Fellow, Dr Anna Hampson Lundh, is currently looking for people who are blind or vision impaired who are willing to be interviewed for an hour

VisAbility will be running a free workshop on Document Accessibility on Wednesday 13 June.

Yesterday many of our meetup group were at the launch for the Centre for Accessibility, a joint project between Dr Scott Hollier, DADAA and Media on Mars. In spite of the cold weather and early start, there were over 100 people attending…

Kylie from Humaan has written a summary of her adventures at this year’s Perth Web Accessibility Camp…

Several of the meetup group will be going to the Centre for Accessibility’s launch event on Wednesday June 6th. We’d love to see you there!

On 17th May, Perth joined in for the A11y Bytes celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. We had 4 speakers from the meetup group give lightning talks, and a few dozen developers, designers and management types come along to share the fun.

We’ve missed Vivienne at our recent meetings, because she has been busy in Kuwait with a new office and consulting with the Kuwait government.

On Thursday 17th May, Julie will be hosting the Perth section of A11y Bytes.