Celebrating Web Standards on Blue Beanie Day, November 30

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It’s that time of the year to show your support for web standards on November 30, the international celebration of Blue Beanie Day.

Web designers, developers, content strategists, user experience professionals, accessibility specialists—folks involved with creating, publishing, and coding on the web—will celebrate Blue Beanie Day by sharing a photo of themselves or updating their avatar with a blue beanie.

Blue Beanie Day reminds us all of the importance of web standards and creating accessible websites.

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Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup Groups

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Whether I’m on social media or attending an online event, every week someone asks me about accessibility and inclusive design meetup groups.

So I decided to create a list of all the accessibility and inclusive design meetup groups I could find online.

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Inclusive Design 24 Returns September 22, 2022

Inclusive Design 24 schedule highlighting the pre-show and first session, The Recipe for Making Accessible Widgets.

How digital accessibility can remove barriers from job searching websites, designing with ethics in mind, and an inclusive design workflow for teams are among the topics for this year’s Inclusive Design 24 (ID24) conference.

The online Inclusive Design 24 is a free 24-hour conference on September 22, 2022, open to everyone.

Bringing together people around the world who want to share and learn about inclusive design in products and services, ID24 is an event I enjoy attending every year!

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