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From: Catherine Roy
Date: Feb 12, 2013 7:28PM

Hi all,

Next February 23rd is International Open Data Day
(http://opendataday.org/) and we are having a big hackothon in Montreal
to celebrate. This is not a disability related event but a codefest
where people of various sectors, mostly developers, interested in open
data will spend the day creating or further developping applications
using open data, mostly provided by the city of Montreal. So for
example, it could be an app enabling citizens to consult which skating
rinks are open on a given week-end or one that gives citizens an
opportunity to provide input on how the budget should be spent on
publics services in their burrough, etc. While many will be web apps, I
suspect a fair amount will be mobile apps as well. Most of the people
there will have only a marginal awarness of accessibility, if any.
Obviously, my interest in this context is to try to get the developpers
to at least consider making their app with basic accessibility and
considering the context, this will be a challenge.

I am not sure yet if I will be able to attend but either way, I would
like to dissimenate some accessibility resources on the local open data
mailing list ahead of time. So I would appreciate suggestions that are
well, practical and easy, resources that will give the basics, practical
things that are quick to consult, easy to understand and fairly easy to
implement in the kind of context we are talking about. Your input is
welcomed and you may reply off-list if you prefer.

Thanks,


Catherine

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Catherine Roy
http://www.catherine-roy.net