Scripting Enabled is an accessibility and social networking hack day scheduled for 19th and 20th of September and tickets just went on sale today. The aim of the conference is to break down the barriers between disabled users and the social web as much as giving ethical hackers real world issues to solve.
Organised by Chris Heilmann from Yahoo! the event is set to be a first and not to be missed. Here’s a break down of what the two days will cover:
On 19th and 20th of September we’ll spend two days kicking off an ongoing research and solutions exercise to remove online accessibility barriers. The event is split into two days with different venues:
On Friday, the 19th of September we’ll meet in the Henry Thomas hall of Metropolitan University in Holloway Road, London to learn from speakers what kind of barriers there are in online offers. Instead of development experts telling us what they think the barriers are this will have speakers that deal with them day by day and cover a range of problems, not just visual impairment.
This event has 150 tickets all in all and will be a discussion/presentation day.
On Saturday, the 20th of September 50 hackers then meet at Gamelab in Shoreditch take the learnings from day one and turn them into alternative interfaces for sites that unnecessarily block out users. We’ll also create blue-print solutions for common problems that will be released open source and documented under Creative Commons.
This event is a hack day and we got space for 50 dedicated hackers.
This looks like a really exciting event so be sure to book your free ticket(s) and see you there.
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