Great Grommet Podcast

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