[Accessibleweb] Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up, Tue 10/28/25 at 11 AM PT

[Hadi Rangin via Accessibleweb]

Hello accessibility minded friends and colleagues,

Please join us tomorrow Tuesday 10/28 at 11 AM for another exciting, informal, and friendly Web Accessibility/Usability meet-up.

Agenda

Transforming Complex Excel Data into Word
Daniela Choto from UW Treasury will share the challenges her team faces when transforming data and tables from complex Excel sheets into Word documents. She will discuss the accessibility issues encountered in this process and potential workarounds or solutions.

Dynamic Tables and Potential Accessibility Issues
If you're looking to publish data in a searchable or browsable format on the web and maintain accessibility, a couple of options include the open source DataTables library (datatables.net), and the TablePress WordPress pluging (tablepress.org). DataTables has a lot of great functionality, but it comes at the cost of accessibility, while the TablePress plugin is less sophisticated but more accessible.
Wade Guidry, from University of Washington Libraries will share his observations and experience with these resources with us.

Open agenda
Reviewing your site/application for accessibility is the main component of this meet-up and we all learn from such reviews.
We're always looking for websites and topics to discuss! Please bring your questions, concerns, ideas, and website and we will be glad to add to the agenda.

Meeting info

  *   What: Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meetup
  *   When: Tuesday October 28, 2025 11 AM - 12 PM PT
  *   Where: https://washington.zoom.us/my/hadirangin<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/washington.zoom.us/my/hadirangin__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!kA6E7qgn0GM6P5WvM9v0nKxjTwnOdgcuCctzitw0ihqa29dhxLQOtdI6Crv1C-9gEFG3atM56Q$>
  *   Meeting ID: 206 221 1532

About Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up
The Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability meet-up is a place for accessibility minded colleagues to casually reviewing and discussing your projects. This generally includes lots of hands-on testing and code review. If you are working on a project and would like to get accessibility feedback from your peers, please let us know and we will add it to the agenda. We always encourage you to bring your own sites and topics, as it is a great learning experience for everyone.

How to Join the Mailing List
We send our announcements typically a week prior to the meetup through various internal mailing lists, including the accessibleweb mailing list - which is open to the public. Please subscribe to that list to receive the announcements if you haven't already done it yet. You can do so by accessing this link:
https://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibleweb.

Thanks, and looking forward to another engaging and fruitful discussion.

Hadi Rangin (he/him)
IT Accessibility Specialist
Access Technology Center/ATS/UW-IT
(206) 685-4144
hadir at uw.edu<mailto:hadir at uw.edu>



Hadi Rangin
IT Accessibility Specialist
Access Technology Center/Services, UW-IT
University of Washington
(206) 685-4144, Direct: (206) 221-1532
hadir at uw.edu<mailto:hadir at uw.edu>
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