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Portland Accessibility and User Experience Meetup (PDX A11Y UX) – Accessibility maturity models
September 19 @ 5:45 pm - 7:45 pm
As an accessibility professional, do you ever feel like you’re swimming against the tide as you try to make your company’s offerings more accessible? If so, you’re probably aware that the organization could be “better” with respect to accessibility, but you may have trouble identifying just what it would take to make real progress. Accessibility maturity models can help by providing objective assessment criteria and concrete steps for leveling up. In this talk, we’ll cover what is a maturity model, how they’ve been applied to accessibility, and strategies for getting started with your first assessment.
Event begins at 6:00pm; join early starting at 5:45pm for networking.
#### Agenda
* 5:45–6:00pm Networking
* 6:00–6:15pm Introductions & announcements
* 6:15–7:00pm Presentation
* 7:00–7:30pm Q&A and discussion
* 7:30–7:45pm Wrap up
#### About the presenter
(https://andrew.hedges.name/) is a co-founder of (https://assistivlabs.com/), providers of a platform that simplifies manual testing of websites with assistive technologies. He is a longtime web developer having started building websites professionally in 1998. Soon thereafter he discovered this thing called accessibility and has been advocating for it ever since. Most recently, he led the design system team at Zapier where he was a major contributor to the company’s accessibility guild, including helping initiate Zapier’s first self-assessment of their digital accessibility maturity.
#### Accommodation requests
If you have any accommodation requests, please (mailto:info@pdxa11yux.org) in advance of the event to discuss.
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