{"id":65,"date":"2010-02-05T00:37:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/accessibility-dc-meet-up-and-other-events\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:20:31","slug":"accessibility-dc-meet-up-and-other-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/accessibility-dc-meet-up-and-other-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility DC Meet-up and Other Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this months <a title=\"Accessibility DC monthly meeting information\" href=\"http:\/\/AccessibilityDC.org\">Accessibility DC<\/a> event (February 16, 2010) Eric Wright (<a title=\"Eric Wright on twtitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ewaccess\">@ewaccess<\/a>)<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> will be discussing and demoing how <\/span>to navigate the Web hands free on a PC. He will showcase speech computing software including <a title=\"Dragon Naturally Speaking Voice Recognition Software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nuance.com\/naturallyspeaking\/\">Dragon Naturally Speaking<\/a>, <a title=\"Know Brainer Speach Recognition software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knowbrainer.com\/\">KnowBrainer<\/a>, and <a title=\"Windows Speech Recognition Software information on Wkikpedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Speech_Recognition\">Windows Speech Recognition<\/a>. Eric will talk about what elements are important for ensuring speech accessible HTML, and show some basic HTML tags that will help people talk to your Website.<\/p>\n<p>At the first Accessibility DC event Eric do a short demo of Dragon Naturally Speaking on how to set the software up in just a few minutes. He has a great knowledge of the product and seemed so at ease talking to the crowd while being put on the spot to help us kick-off the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The next few months it seems we have some cool talks and demos planned or at least almost finalized. Next months talk on Accessible PDFs by Carol Klinger and Dona Patrick, will be not be on third Tuesday of the month, because I will be at SXSW in Austin, TX. Their talk will be on March 23, 2010, starting at 6:30 PM same as other months.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few weeks that has been a lot of talk on Twitter by others that they are\u00a0 starting the planning process to do their own Accessibility Camp&rsquo;s in Seattle, WA, Boston, MA, and London, England. Hoping that the ones in Boston and Seattle are not the same weekend so that I can maybe go out to both events<\/p>\n<p>Please make sure to <a title=\"Accessibility DC monthly meeting information\" href=\"http:\/\/accessibilitdcfeb10.eventbrite.com\">register for this months event<\/a> and follow <a title=\"Accessibility DC  monthly meeting information on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AccessibilityDC\">@AccessibilityDC<\/a> or <a title=\"John F Croston III on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jfc3\">@jfc3<\/a> on Twitter for monthly information about the events and other accessibility news.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to have more information about this falls <a title=\"Accessibility Camp DC -  unconference\" href=\"http:\/\/AccessibilityCampDC.org\">Accessibility Camp DC<\/a> in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this months Accessibility DC event (February 16, 2010) Eric Wright (@ewaccess) will be discussing and demoing how to navigate the Web hands free on a PC. He will showcase speech computing software including Dragon Naturally Speaking, KnowBrainer, and Windows &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/accessibility-dc-meet-up-and-other-events\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,167,168,124,121,153,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-accessibiltycamp","category-accessibiltycampdc","category-austin-tx","category-sxsw","category-twitter","category-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}