AMC Net Content/Chicago

Creating Accessible Websites: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

When

Tuesday, October 22, 2002. 5:30 to 8:45 PM

What: An open meeting of the Chicago Web community

As a community, we create websites that serve both our clients and the sites' audiences. (In fact, it is often our job to help educate our clients about how to best serve their audiences.) Now, more than ever, creating sites that are accessible to everyone is not only a good idea, it makes smart business sense -- and it's the law. In this meeting, we'll explore what it means for a website to be "accessible," the factors to consider in creating a site that works for its entire desired audience, and how to create a site that fulfills both legal and business responsibilites.

We have many different roles in creating websites:
* experience design
* information architecture
* content strategy
* visual design
* business strategy
* content development

This meeting is organized by Net Content/Chicago and the AMC's Information Architecture Special Interest Group (email list: AMCChicagoIASIG-subscribe@yahoogroups.com). Co-hosts:
DigitalEve Chicago - http://www.digitalevechicago.org
AIGA Chicago - http://www.aigachicago.org
Chi-Squared (Chicago chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) - http://www.acm.org/chapters/chi-sqrd
Usability Professionals Association - http://www.chicagoupa.org

Our speakers

Allen Maynard, Access Technology Specialist, Hadley School for the Blind, who uses the Internet and many common applications by relying on screen readers.

Dave Skwarczek, Director Emeritus, Dunn Solutions Group and founder of Streams, one of Chicago's first interactive design firms.

Sanjay Batra, PhD, a leading advocate, designer, and researcher of human experience and partner at Cognitive Sense.

Gunter Kalogridis, Principal, Chicago Systems Group, an e-business consulting firm that advises government and private-sector clients about website accessibility issues.

Where

600 West Chicago (former Ward's building, temporarily known as e-port) - http://www.600westchicago.com - 4blocks west of the Chicago Ave. Brown/Purple line el stop

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