Great Grommet Podcast Grommet

In this podcast, we interviewed digital accessibility pro Jennison Asuncion. He provided amazing tips on making your digital projects accessible. Listen to the podcast and tweet @grommetux if you have any questions.

Podcast Timeline:
0:00 - 3:45 Grommet updates from Chris Carlozzi
4:00: Interview with Jennison starts with Grommet contributor Alan Souza
4:30: Who are you and what do you do
4:53: Tell us more about CSUN conference
5:30: What are the main issues with navigating the web as a blind user?
8:00: Twitter just released a new feature for accessibility access - alternative access.
9:00: Tell us about your background in digital accessibility.
10:16: What advice do you have for those getting into digital accessibility?
12:00: How have you educated others on accessibility
12:28: Global Accessibility Awareness Day - May 19
16:30: What tools do you recommend to test websites are accessible?
21:03: Why is it important for enterprise apps to be accessible?
24:00: Blogs talking about accessibility to follow
24:50: Where do you see accessibility in 5 to 10 years?


Twitter Handles Mentioned During the Podcast:
Jennison Asuncion @jennison
Jesse Beach @jessebeach
Alice Boxhall @sundress
Accessibility Jobs Twitter Account @a11yjobs
Joe Devon @joedevon
Marco Zehe @marcoinenglish
Leonie Watson @leoniewatson
Sam Ogami @sogami

Links Mentioned in the Podcast:
Bay Area Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup http://www.meetup.com/a11ybay

Global Accessibility Awareness Day http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org

Accessibility Camp Bay Area http://www.accessibilitycampbay.org

WebAIM http://www.webaim.org

Apps For All: Coding Accessible Web Applications by Heydon Pickering
@heydonworks https://shop.smashingmagazine.com/products/apps-for-all

Practical ARIA Examples http://heydonworks.com/practical_aria_examples/

Accessibility Wins by Marcy Sutton @marcysutton https://a11ywins.tumblr.com/

The Before and After Demo from the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative
https://www.w3.org/WAI/demos/bad/

Web Axe blog and podcast http://www.webaxe.org/

Marco's Accessibility Blog – Helping to make accessibility accessible
on the web and elsewhere https://www.marcozehe.de/

Tink - Léonie Watson – On technology, food & life in the digital age
http://tink.uk/

The Paciello Group Blog https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/

SSB BART Group blog http://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/

31st International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference
(CSUN Conference) www.csunconference.org

The Great Big List (presentations, video and other material) from the

2016 CSUN International Technology & Persons with Disabilities
Conference http://curbcut.net/events/csun16-disabilities-technology/

List of Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetups
https://www.lireo.com/accessibility-inclusive-design-in-person-groups/

NVDA NonVisual Desktop Access (free Windows screen reader) www.nvda-project.org

Thanks to @sogami for the podcast intro and Bensound.com for the music.

Eric and Chris share the latest news on Grommet including special guest / co-worker Alan Souza.

Timeline:
0:30 - Alan Souza shares details on his CSUN accessibility presentation
6:00 - Rate and Review the Great Grommet Podcast on iTunes
7:40 - Grommet 0.5.4 Release Notes
10:00 - Hyper Converged 380 System from Hewlett Packard Enterprise
14:00 - Blogging with Grommet

Make sure to rate and review the podcast on iTunes -
Thanks to Jackie for doing the intro and for bensound.com for the music.

Welcome back to the second installment of the Great Grommet Podcast.

Here’s a snapshot of the topics we discussed in this episode:

0:59 - There’s so much out there; why use Grommet?
5:15 - The login screen dilemma
7:30 - Driving your organization and development from a design standpoint
10:25 - Having an open-source mindset
14:11 - How Grommet is designed for the enterprise
19:00 - Contribute to Grommet on Github

Thanks so much to Yousef for the opening intro and bensounds.com for the opening and closing music.

Tweet @grommetux with any comments or questions.

This is our first podcast hosted by Chris Carlozzi and Eric Soderberg from Palo Alto, California at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise HQ. In this podcast we cover the following:

2:39 – What Grommet is and who we’re building it for
7:35 – Discussing Ethan’s Grommet interview about Responsive Design
11:00 – Putting yourself in a problem-solving mindset
16:30 – How people are contributing to Grommet and helping it grow and evolve
18:30 – Being mobile first in design

Got questions? Tweet @grommetux or join our Slack channel at http://slackin.grommet.com

Audio intro from Grommet contributor @eabay
Music from http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/moose