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From: Brian Lovely
Date: May 2, 2016 8:24AM

I know that bee! Apress has a great book: Pro HTML5 Accessibility: http://www.apress.com/9781430241942 <http://www.apress.com/9781430241942>;. WebAIM does regular 2 day training courses: http://webaim.org/training/ <http://webaim.org/training/>;. IAAP offers webinars and lots of other accessibility related stuff: http://www.accessibilityassociation.org/ <http://www.accessibilityassociation.org/>;. WAI offers a (possibly overwhelming) amount of guidelines, tutorials, and internationally-accepted standards: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ <https://www.w3.org/WAI/>


Brian Lovely
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> On May 2, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Gillen, Lori < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Hi-
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> I have always wanted to raise accessibility awareness, but the problem is that while I have a great deal of passion, I've never received any training. Where did all of you receive your training, and how did you actually get your first job?
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> I woke up this morning with a "bee in my bonnet" ready to take charge and find an accessibility job.
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> Thanks for any input you have,
>
> Lori Gillen
> McKesson Corporation
> Newton, MA
> > > >