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From: Vincent Young
Date: Thu, Jan 12 2012 3:06PM
Subject: ADA IRC?
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Are there any accessibility IRC channels in the ether? If there are not,
any interest?

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Thu, Jan 12 2012 7:12PM
Subject: Re: ADA IRC?
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There is an accessibility channel on Mozilla's server. I haven't been
there for a while, so I don't know if people are open to talking about
accessibility in general or just Moz's stuff.

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Vincent Young < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Are there any accessibility IRC channels in the ether?  If there are not,
> any interest?
>
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> WebHipster Interactive, ltd.
> Vincent Young - Principal
> 742 N Sweetzer
> West Hollywood, CA 90069
> p: 614.607.3400
> f: 339-674-3400
> e: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> w: http://www.webhipster.com
>

From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Fri, Jan 13 2012 1:03AM
Subject: Re: ADA IRC?
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Vincent Young < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Are there any accessibility IRC channels in the ether?  If there are
> not, any interest?

There used to be an #accessibility channel on Freenode, but it had a
population of about three people (I was one of them) and we were very
quiet. (I remember perhaps two conversations in three years.)

If you're looking for a place to discuss accessible web development,
#web on Freenode is perhaps your best starting point, although (fair
warning) it's rowdier and more laddish than it used to be.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

From: John E Brandt
Date: Fri, Jan 13 2012 9:00AM
Subject: Re: ADA IRC?
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Not sure IRC is as popular as it once was. Many folks are simply using Twitter and other social networking for "chatting." When I want to ask a question and need a quick response, I usually tweet with the hashtag - #a11y and often have a response within minutes.

There are also a couple of pretty active accessibility groups in LinkedIn; one associated with W3C-WAI and one more devoted to Section 508. I have the LinkedIn system send me a "digest-archive" once a week. Less instant, but very effective.

~j

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Vincent Young < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Are there any accessibility IRC channels in the ether? If there are
> not, any interest?

There used to be an #accessibility channel on Freenode, but it had a population of about three people (I was one of them) and we were very quiet. (I remember perhaps two conversations in three years.)

If you're looking for a place to discuss accessible web development, #web on Freenode is perhaps your best starting point, although (fair
warning) it's rowdier and more laddish than it used to be.

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

From: Vincent Young
Date: Fri, Jan 13 2012 11:39AM
Subject: Re: ADA IRC?
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It's not, but I still have uses for it. I'll start giving twitter a try
for this. Thanks for the input guys.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:03 AM, John E Brandt < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Not sure IRC is as popular as it once was. Many folks are simply using
> Twitter and other social networking for "chatting." When I want to ask a
> question and need a quick response, I usually tweet with the hashtag -
> #a11y and often have a response within minutes.
>
> There are also a couple of pretty active accessibility groups in LinkedIn;
> one associated with W3C-WAI and one more devoted to Section 508. I have the
> LinkedIn system send me a "digest-archive" once a week. Less instant, but
> very effective.
>
> ~j
>
> John E. Brandt
> www.jebswebs.com
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> 207-622-7937
> Augusta, Maine, USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 3:05 AM
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] ADA IRC?
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> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Vincent Young < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> wrote:
> > Are there any accessibility IRC channels in the ether? If there are
> > not, any interest?
>
> There used to be an #accessibility channel on Freenode, but it had a
> population of about three people (I was one of them) and we were very
> quiet. (I remember perhaps two conversations in three years.)
>
> If you're looking for a place to discuss accessible web development, #web
> on Freenode is perhaps your best starting point, although (fair
> warning) it's rowdier and more laddish than it used to be.
>
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
>