Zara Gemmell
@zarageeuk
.big-heart .big-brain .big-aspirations Accessibility Director @HeX_Productions co-organiser of @A11yNottingham #developer #photographer #a11ycrusader
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Meet our panelist Sofea Wong. Sofea is a Graduate Accessibility Specialist at @thehutgroup where she works alongside designers and developers to support them to create and build brilliant new features and run accessibility audits across different sites and apps. #GAAD #A11yUK
Meet our panelist Robin Barayuga. Robin is a Graduate Accessibility Specialist at @thehutgroup where he is combining his lived experience of being born blind with a more nuanced understanding of accessibility which is helping him in making impactful contributions! #GAAD #A11yUK
Meet our speaker Gareth Ford Williams. Gareth is Co-Director of the The Readability Group. His new talk, The Little Book of Accessibility, is a collection of observations, affirmations and quotes that summarise learnings that every accessibility manager needs to get to grips with. #GAAD #A11yUK
Meet our panelist Liam O'Dell. Liam is a freelance journalist and campaigner specialising in deafness, disability and social media. A contributor to the deaf news blog The Limping Chicken, his work also features in The Stage, HuffPost, Metro, The i and Independent. #GAAD #A11yUK
How great to hear Jennison Asuncion at the #A11yUK event. Thank you for all your work and advocacy, hope to see you in England some time!
We are very proud to be sponsoring the #BSL interpretation for tonight’s #A11yUK live event for #GAAD #GAAD2021 We’re passionate about #Deaf access and have lots in the pipeline to highlight and support the Deaf community with our good friend and colleague Simon Miller
Invest enough time to shift the conversation from “worthy” to “worthwhile”. Accessible products increase reach and share, and increase customer loyalty Gareth Ford Williams #GAAD #A11yUK
“Marketing demographics are not useful for design research. Insight comes from focusing on human characteristics, contexts and barriers” Gareth Ford Williams #GAAD #a11yuk
“Accessibility is Emotional as much as it is Functional and Technical” Gareth Ford Williams #GAAD #a11yuk
“Ensure your UX Design does not disable people” Gareth Ford Williams people are disabled by their barriers in society, and can be caused by people’s indifference #GAAD #a11yuk
“Build accessible websites from accessible components, and cut the workload in half” Gareth Ford Williams #GAAD #a11yuk
“Your a11y policy tells the story of how far you have come, whilst your a11y statement sets out how far you intend to go” Gareth Ford Williams Policy allows people to know what they can expect #GAAD #a11yuk
The #BSL interpreters from Clarion UK are doing an amazing job at tonight’s #A11yUK #GAAD #GAAD2021 - Thank you ✌️💛
Last week my friend would have celebrated his 70th Birthday. Unfortunately, he lost his life to Motor Neuron Disease MND last year. Please support MND Association in any way you can. In Glyn’s memory, I’d like this tweet to get 70 Retweets. Can you help me by sharing this tweet 🙏