2021 Hands-on Jupyter accessibility workshop

Date: Thursday, December 16th
Starts at 9AM PST (in your timezone)
Should end two hours later around 11 AM PST

Location: event zoom (global dial-in options)

jupyter is a tool for scientists, but doesn't yet meet the needs of all scientists. this event will increase the visibility and capabilities of accessibility within the jupyter development community.

attendees

name	org	username
tonyfast	quansight	@tonyfast
Jason Weill	AWS	@jweill-aws
Martha Cryan	IBM	@marthacryan
Piyush Jain	AWS	@3coins
Ely	Bloomberg	@ohrely
Ahmed Fasih	Bloomberg	@fasiha
Frederic Collonval	QuantStack	@fcollonval
Gabriel Fouasnon	Quansight	@gabalafou

objectives

the hands-on accessibility workshop will consider the intersections of accessibility and jupyter. we'll work together to share tools and experience with accessibility. we'll think about what we can do to improve quality of jupyter across the technical spectrum.

our primary theme at this event will be using your system's tools to measure the accessibility of jupyter's retrolab. retrolab's version 7.0 release is meant to improve the accessibility of jupyter, and is our closest offering to being accessible.

attendees will gain tools and confidence to advocate for accessibility concerns during the development of jupyter products.

attendees

current and aspiring jupyter contributors. all levels of accessiblity experience welcome.

requirements

• no previous accessibility experience required
• binder will be available for participants without a development setup
• (optional) install the WAVE browser extension

prereading resources (optional)

numpy accessibility guidelines

mozilla digital accessibility overview

agenda

• [:05-:10] (tony/ely) welcome

• [:10-:17] (ely) intro to accessibility concepts (prereading recap)

• [:17-:25] group digital accessibility quiz

• [:25-:30] (tony) why are we here? an introduction the jupyter accessibility initiative

  hole

• [:30-:35] (tony) using WAVE (the web accessibility evaluation tool)

• [:35-:45] (gabriel) accessibility insight inspector and accessibility tree

  • Kate Kalcevich talk: How to fall in love with accessibility
  • How to write meaningful links from Princeton
  • Accessibility Insights (browser plugin) from Microsoft

• [:45-1:40] breakout rooms identifying and testing common accessibility problems

  • qa for a day use common tools to diagnose accessibility issues in retrolab
    • retrolab file browser auditing
    • retrolab notebook auditing
  • alt text documentation break room
    • brief primer on writing good alt text to describe images
    • alt text decision tree
    • raw retrolab README needs pr

• [1:40-2:00] reconvene to share our experiences

Further rabbit holes

• List of common accessibility issues
• Guidelines for keyboard-navigable JS widgets
• HTML and Accessibility
• Professional accessibility audit of jupyterlab
• Stories of people with disabilities who use the web

TODOs

• agenda
• pre reading documents
• advertise
  • notebook w(tony)
  • lab meeting
  • accesibility
  • jupyterhub
  • discourse (ely) https://discourse.jupyter.org/
• binder for the event (tony)
• add to the jupyter calendar (isabela)
• tweet last-minute (isabela)
• alt text breakout prep (tony/isabela)
• zoom link (ely)
• pick a quiz (ely->tony)
• exit form (tony)