[Sigia-l] Meeting this Tuesday, Creating Accessible Websites: Multidisciplinary Perspectives: An open meeting of the Chicago Web community

[j.weinheimer at jlw-dmg.net]

Forwarded. 
Please reply to Debbie Kong, founder, AMC IA SIG  dkong at kongster.com 
708.386.9441 or Hilary Marsh, founder, Net Content/Chicago 
hilary at contentcompany.biz 
312.762.2124
--Jim

-----------------------

Creating Accessible Websites: Multidisciplinary Perspectives: An open 
meeting of the Chicago Web community, Tuesday, October 22, 2002


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 hope this meeting is the first regular gathering of the Chicago 
Web community.

Organizers:
Net Content/Chicago 
<http://www.amcomm.org/scripts/content.cgi?page=SIG_content>
Information Architecture SIG of the AMC <http://www.amcomm.org> -- 
Email list: AMCChicagoIASIG-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
                                                             

Co-hosts:
DigitalEve Chicago <http://www.digitalevechicago.org>
Chicago AIGA Experience Design Community of Interest 
<http://www.aiga.org/edchicago>
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:

Dave Skwarczek, Director Emeritus, Dunn Solutions Group 
<http://www.dunnsolutionsgroup.com> 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 
<http://www.cognitivesense.com/>.

Allen Maynard, Access Technology Specialist, Hadley School for the 
Blind <http://www.hadley-school.org/>, who uses the Internet and many 
common applications by relying on screen readers.

Gunter Kalogridis, Principal, Chicago Systems Group 
<http://www.chicagosystemsgroup.com/>, an e-business consulting firm 
that advises government and private-sector clients about website 
accessibility issues.

Details:

Tuesday, October 22
5:30 to 9:00 p.m.

5:30-6:30 PM - Networking and light buffet
6:30-8:00 PM - Presentations
8:00-9:00 PM - Q&A/discussion

600 West Chicago (former Ward's building, temporarily known as e-port)
<http://www.600westchicago.com>
4 blocks west of the Chicago Ave. Brown/Purple line el stop
Parking may be found on the street or at the north end in the 600 
Building. It costs $6.00. NOTE: Do not park in the lot across from 
the entrance, because it closes before our meeting ends.


Admission:
$10
$5 for members of DigitalEve Chicago, AIGA, UPA and Chi-Squared
FREE for AMC members and full-time students with ID.


For more information, contact
Debbie Kong, founder, AMC IA SIG  dkong at kongster.com 708.386.9441 or
Hilary Marsh, founder, Net Content/Chicago hilary at contentcompany.biz 
312.762.2124
-- 
Hilary Marsh
president
content company inc
plan  *  create  *  manage

_______________________________________________________________________________