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Takeaways from How Learning American Sign Language Improved My Alt Text

January 4, 2017 By Deborah Edwards-Onoro

Thanks to Accessibility New York City (A11y NYC) livestreaming their January 2017 meetup last night, I was able to attend Shawn Lauriat’s presentation How Learning American Sign Language (ASL) Improved My Alt Text.

Before Lauriat began his presentation, he introduced himself as one of the co-organizers for the A11y NYC meetup group and spoke about his job at Google, working on accessibility for Google Docs and Drive (sounds cool to me!).

I smiled and nodded my head when he said: Continue reading Takeaways from How Learning American Sign Language Improved My Alt Text

Filed Under: Accessibility Tagged With: #a11y, #a11ynyc, Accessibility New York, alt text, alternative text, American Sign Language, image, Shaun Lauriat, visual description

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