Next Refresh
Social Planning Hour
presented by To Be DeterminedRefresh Portland is back, and our January meetup is all about you! To start off the year, we invite every Refresh member, old and new alike, to an informal dinner and planning hour.
Maybe you’ve been wondering about what Refresh Portland could, or should look like this year. Maybe you have a burning idea you want to share, or a new space where we can host future meetups. Maybe you’re looking to talk usability and front-end design with people who get it. Or maybe you’re just looking for a way to contribute and help out a growing group. This is the venue to ask, give, and wonder about all of the above.
Help make Refresh Portland the best it can be for 2010, and enjoy a nice drink and mindshare with some of the best designers/developers in town!
We haven’t yet announced the speaker for this month yet. If you are interested in giving a presentation this month, please contact us and we’ll get back to you shortly. Stay tuned! We should be announcing a speaker and topic shortly!
Next Refresh
Assumptions About Users, & Accessibility
presented by Callie B. CarrollWhen the accessibility of technology (hardware, software, web, and mobile) is considered throughout design, development, andtesting, the rewards are systems that provide equal access tofunctionality, services, and information for their entire range of users. To plan for accessibility, assumptions must be made about users, and these assumptions can can create design that is either inclusive or exclusive, with narrow or broad usability.
This presentation will inspire thinking about users in ways that will help designers and developers create technology that works for everyone, rather than technology that just supports what some see as the disparate groups of “normal” users and “those with disabilities”.
A discussion of universal design, usability, accessibility, disability, younger and older user groups, as well as particular assistive technologies (including screen readers, often used by persons with visual impairments) will be of interest to web and interactive designers, developers, product managers, user experience practitioners, educators, and anyone who has ever used, or plans to use, a pencil, keyboard, mouse, or telephone.
Callie B. Carroll is a humanitarian technologist who speaks both computer and human. She specializes in user experience, usability and accessibility, and has worked at Apple for iTunes Store and iTunes U.
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- Social Planning Hour
- presented by To Be Determined
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- Assumptions About Users, & Accessibility
- presented by Callie B. Carroll
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