About A11yYOW

According to Wikipedia: “An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered on a theme or purpose.” . It is within this context that a Ottawa Accessibility Unconference will be held on Friday December 2th, 2011 with, as the name suggests, the theme centering on accessibility—namely, to information technology for people with disabilities.

This will be Ottawa's first IT accessibility unconference, bringing together developers, usability professionals, web designers, other IT professionals and end-users with disabilities together in an informal, non-threatening environment to learn from each other and to promote universal design of and accessibility to IT. As it is an unconference, speakers will be solicited on-site and the schedule will be built on the spot. What's more, the event will be free of charge to participants.

The idea of an accessibility unconference for Ottawa was first inspired by @Jennison and the work of people who have or are organizing unconferences on this subject around the world.

We could have called it Accessibility Camp Ottawa, but decided to go for more of an unconference format.