# notebook for all monthly community call

notebooks for all is an open source accessibility initiative to improve the quality interactive computing experiences for disabled people and assistive technology users. this work actively seeks includes disabled communities to hear their wants/needs for assistive computational literature at work, in class, or media in general.

the [notebooks for all](https://iota-school.github.io/notebooks-for-all/) project started with funds from the Space Telescope Science Institute to improve access for blind and low vision scientists using computational notebooks. currently, we are working accessible representation of jupyter notebooks in the [`nbconvert-a11y`](https://github.com/deathbeds/nbconvert-a11y) project, read more WIP on [the wiki](https://github.com/deathbeds/nbconvert-a11y/wiki/about).

we'll meet monthly to discuss assistive technology, disability, accessibility, data science, and notebooks.

[add events from the notebooks for all calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=ZnV0dXJld2FybmluZ3R2QGdtYWlsLmNvbQ)

* Next event: [May 16, 2024](#May-16-2024) 9-10:30 AM PST
* Zoom link: TBD

## May 16, 2024

### Attendees
| Name | Affiliation | GitHub |
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| tonyfast | | @tonyfast |
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### Agenda

* [10:05 - 10:10] Welcoming and meeting goals
* [10:10 - 10:20] Voluntary introductions and short shares
* introduce yourself and/or share your accessibility wins or something you found interesting this week
* [10:20 - 10:40] The disabled developer or data science experience

we'll have a group discussion about the experiences of affected users of assistive technology. we want to hear about the daily experiences of disabled scientists and technologists to learn what accomodations are effective.

* [10:40 - 10:55] How do we drive better assistive technology experiences in open source

it is important for disabled voices to be heard in designing software. in this discussion we'll work to understand what support disabled developers or wish existed so they could participate in open source software practices.

* [10:55 - 11:00] Wrap up
* What access needs should be consider in the future?
* Suggestions for next month
* [11:00 - 11:30] Unstructured community time

## March 12, 2024

### Attendees
| Name | Affiliation | GitHub |
| ---- | ----------- | ------ |
| tonyfast | | @tonyfast |

### Agenda

* [10:05 - 10:10] Welcoming and meeting goals
* [10:10 - 10:18] Voluntary introductions and short shares
* introduce yourself and/or share your accessibility wins or something you found interesting this week
* [10:18 - 10:25] [Notebooks for all](https://iota-school.github.io/notebooks-for-all/) history
* [history presentation](https://tonyfast.github.io/tonyfast/draft/tonyfast/tonyfast/tonyfast/xxiv/2024-03-11-NOA.html)
* [10:25 - 10:55] [Accessible reference template for notebooks](https://github.com/deathbeds/nbconvert-a11y) demo by [@tonyfast](https://github.com/tonyfast)
* [accessible notebooks experiences](https://tonyfast.github.io/tonyfast/draft/tonyfast/tonyfast/tonyfast/xxiv/2024-03-12-nbconvert-a11y-pres.html)

* [10:55 - 11:00] Wrap up
* What access needs should be consider in the future?
* Suggestions for next month
* [11:00 - 11:30] Unstructured community time