Free Webinar: Native Plants and Forest Gardens for Food, Medicine, Crafts, and Habitat

Bright yellow petalled daisy-like flowers with brown centers rise from tall green narrow-leaved stems.

Whether you’re new to native plant gardening or a longtime gardener who’s been growing native plants for years, you want to stay informed on how to select native plants for your garden that benefit wildlife and people.

I know it’s short notice, but tonight’s Native Plants and Forest Gardens for Food, Medicine, Crafts, and Habitat is a free webinar from The Battery Conservancy offering helpful resources and tips.

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Web Accessibility in Mind Conference: Free, Virtual Web Accessibility Conference on September 7-8, 2022

Web Accessibility in Mind conference home page highlighting the date and registration.

Mark your calendar!

The inaugural Web Accessibility in Mind Conference, a two-day virtual conference hosted by WebAIM in partnership with Pope Tech, launches September 7-8, 2022.

Held online using Zoom, the free conference runs from noon to 5:00pm Eastern Time zone, with a one-hour break at 2:00pm each day.

Live captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided. The schedule is not yet available, but is expected to be published soon.

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Knowbility Be A Digital Ally Series: Video Captioning

Knowbility Be A Digital Ally Series announcement.

Whether you’re deaf, hard of hearing, work in a quiet or noisy environment, or comprehend better with the written word, captioned videos benefit everyone.

Captioning is the text version of what is spoken in a video.

For readers of this blog, you know I’m a longtime advocate for video captions.

I’ve been writing about the benefits of video captions as well as video captioning success stories for years.

Which is why I’m excited about the third session in Knowbility’s Be A Digital Ally series.

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