San Diego Accessibility & Inclusive Design July Meetup

Come talk accessibility with us at the ServiceNow Campus. We'll have some amazing lightning talks and time for networking and hanging out. We'll start the lightning talks around 6:45pm. Food and drinks will be provided! * Speakers & Topics What Is It Like To Be An AI Agent? An Exploration of Humanity, Accessibility, and the Limits of Artificial Awareness [Emily Barbenza](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilybarbenza/) is a Staff Accessibility Engineer with 13 years at ServiceNow and founding member of their accessibility program. She is a disabled person writing and speaking about AI, disability, and consciousness at the intersection of philosophy of mind and accessibility. * WCAG Isn't Mythical: Making Accessibility Guidelines Anyone Can Understand Justin Salas is a professional rock climber, World Champion, digital accessibility expert, and project manager who is passionate about building products that are simple, easy to use, and fit into life seamlessly. He is the creator of the WCAG-Learn app, built on the idea that anyone should be able to understand and learn the WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria and start building for everyone. Justin isn't a developer. He's a product person who knows that when you're learning something complicated, simple is better. With AI as his building partner, he turned that instinct into WCAG-Learn, proof that bringing a great idea to life is more approachable than it's ever been. * The New Front Door: How AI Interfaces Can Improve Access for Blind and Low Vision Users and What We Must Get Right** Blake Steinecke is Digital Accessibility Lead at ServiceNow, helping build the internal accessibility program in the employee-facing product organization. With a background across product and marketing teams, he approaches accessibility as a user experience and organization wide challenge, and as a visually impaired…