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From: Catherine Roy
Date: Feb 14, 2013 9:02AM

On 14/02/2013 10:43 AM, Corbett, James wrote:
> Catherine:
>
> You say next Feb. 23.... as in next week or so?
>

Yes. February 23 2013.



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> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Catherine Roy
> Sent: February 12, 2013 9:29 PM
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> Subject: [WebAIM] practical and easy accessibility resources
>
> 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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