Women In Tech January 2021

This month we welcome the fantastic Olu Niyi-Awosusi to speak at Women in Tech Nottingham

Plus we'll be having fun, playing some games and giving away swag and prizes.

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The internet is broken: Web Accessibility and Social Justice

by Olu Niyi-Awosusi

Accessible web practices - meaning here ways of building the web that allow those with impairments and disabilities to use it - might not seem like the coolest way to bring your activism to the internet, but it’s vital to having a web that works for us all.

In this talk, we'll learn how transphobia, sexism, racism, ableism, homophobia and other types of discrimination are echoed and intersect on the web, locking some of the most vulnerable people out of essential services, fun activities and vital information, and what you can do to help make the web a more accessible place for all.

About Olu

Olu is a frontend developer at the Financial Times who adores Javascript-based technologies, semantic HTML, CSS, accessible websites, writing/speaking/listening/reading, bubble tea, Bee and Puppycat, lists, plantain, planning/scheming, unnecessary amounts of punctuation, run-on sentences, and personal organisation/growth/finance/development.

They’re currently learning all about rust and distributed systems (ipfs, dat).
They’re a writer, web artist, an emoji enthusiast, and a lifelong learner. They’re currently learning to sew, and to play ukulele and keyboard.

Olu has been in love with the internet ever since they installed dial-up on the family computer, back when Virgin Media was NTL and it timed out every 15 minutes! They believe that the internet is something that should be available and accessible to every and anyone who wants to use it. It has changed their life in innumerable ways.
They’ve given talks at Afrotech Fest and Non-Binary in Tech, about web accessibility and community.

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