Making Shiny apps accessible for all humans

Hi @matt and @dcruvolo! Thank you for all of these resources. I know this was posted quite some time ago, but I thought you might be interested in this meetup next week (3/9/22 at 12 ET) with Maya Gans and Mara Averick about designing accessible data visualizations.

There will be two talks & community conversation on accessibility.

A11Y in R: Adapting Sarah L. Fossheim's 10 dos and don'ts to keep in mind when designing accessible data visualizations | Maya Gans

Abstract: This talk will use R based visualizations and walk through examples of accessibility considerations when making plots and applications.

Speaker Bio: Maya Gans is a Data Visualization Engineer at Atorus Research where she develops custom applications using R and JavaScript. As an RStudio intern she designed TidyBlocks, a visual block based programming language. Maya also co-wrote JavaScript for Data Science. Maya uses ggplot2 and [d3.js](http://d3.js/) to create music related infographics for JamBase.com. When Maya's not coding, she's climbing mountains.

Adventures with {highcharter} and the Highcharts accessibility module | Mara Averick

Abstract: Lessons learned about accessibility in data visualization through using the {highcharter} R package and the Highcharts visualization library's accessibility module.

Speaker bio: Mara is a developer advocate at RStudio. She is the author of neither the highcharter package nor the Highcharts charting library, but enjoys using both to make interactive, accessible data visualizations.

Updating this post with the recording :smiling_face:

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