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Arty-chan / BCLAwebmakerparty.md
Created December 16, 2013 20:05
BCLA Conference 2014 Presentation Description

Webmaker Party: Building & Engaging a Community of Learners and Mentors

Let's have a Webmaker party! Mozilla has built a suite of online tools: Thimble, a webpage editors; Popcorn Maker, a video editor, and X-Ray Goggles, an easy to use code inspector and changer; with the explicit goal of helping people create things on the web. It's all hosted for you and the fun part is that you can remix what someone else has created (including many included starter projects) to make a new version that is all your own.

Come learn about Webmaker, how you can run a Webmaker party with simply time and planning, and how we can all contribute to building a community of makers, learners, mentors, and learners turned mentors as well as other ways in engaging the community from a Mozillian perspective. In the second part of the session, we will be running a maker party session so you can get an idea of what it's like to participate and what a Webmaker party might look like.

No prior knowledge required, but for the workshop p

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Arty-chan / datacamp-breakout.md
Created November 3, 2013 18:08
DataCamp Breakout Session Notes November 1, 2013 at Surrey Central Library

Webmaker Breakout Session

Facilitators:

  • Dethe Elza @dethe
  • Cynthia Ng @TheRealArty

Webmaker suite:

  • goggles - seeing & “hacking” existing websites, thimble - webpage editor, popcorn - video editor
  • can see the source - see everything about it, remix existing makes, play with the web, social commentary
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Arty-chan / litechconf.markdown
Created October 16, 2013 16:52
LibTechConf 2014 presentation submission

We Are All Disabled! Making Web Services Accessible for Everyone

Abstract

We’re building and improving tools and services all the time, but do you only develop for the “average” user or add things for “disabled” users? We all use “assistive” technology accessing information in a multitude of ways with different platforms, devices, etc. Let’s focus on providing web services that are accessible to everyone without it being onerous or ugly. The aim is to get you thinking about what you can do to make web-based services more accessible for all from the beginning or with small amounts of effort.

Full Description

Despite having policies (and legislation in some cases) around equal opportunity and serving those with disabilities, many of our web services are woefully inaccessible. Many people seem to simply forget, or believe it is too much work. Some people believe that accessible sites cannot be aesthetically pleasing.

The goal of the presentation is to provide both developers and content creators with i