How Do We Make Things Accessible?

IxDA Pittsburgh is a local chapter of the Interaction Design Association serving the design community in Pittsburgh through activities and discussions that facilitate growth, understanding, and development of the profession.Our monthly events include seminars, panels, and workshops. Rather than meeting on a specific day or week, we remain flexible, scheduling events to meet the availability of speakers, hosts, and organizers.Our members include anyone who is interested in facilitating positive and engaging experiences for people. Our practitioners are interaction designers, industrial designers, visual designers, product designers, developers, game designers, roboticists—you name it. To become a member, all you have to do issubscribe to our mailing listto learn about events, and show up. We try to keep all of our events totally free. You can also find us onFacebook,Twitter,LinkedIn,Flickr, andour website. Please join us!

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Jet Townsend has been making things for decades. But how do we make things accessible? Find out at IxDA Pittsburgh’s virtual event.

<p>IxDA Pittsburgh is pleased to present one of our long-time members, Jet Townsend. It would be easier to tell you what Jet hasn’t done than to list what he has done. He possesses a perfect blend of artistic and technical talents—both physical and digital—making him the quintessential maker. Please join us for another virtual event.</p><p></p><h1>About the Talk</h1><p>The ADA and building codes are a response to physical accessibility, but they are only for the future.  How many new buildings are built in Pittsburgh each year? There are national and international guidelines for ICT accessibility similar to ADA; how are they enforced or mandated in consumer products? Any parent can tell you how you learn to do things with just one hand. What if that is the rest of your life, that you can only use one hand? Do you design for parents and misfits by default? Can we go back in time and fix not-universal design?</p>

<h1>About Jet</h1><p>Jet Townsend:</p><ul><li>was a phone phreak in college </li><li>hacked VR in the early 90s</li><li>wrote software at NASA Ames</li><li>worked at General Magic, Liquid Audio, and Datarover</li><li>worked on security, privacy, and screens at TiVo</li><li>earned the first Master of Tangible Interaction Design at Carnegie Mellon.  </li></ul><p>Jet now does industrial and interaction design, digital fabrication of retail products, and teaches physical interaction design and programming classes at CMU.</p>

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