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Returning for the fourth year, Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Detroit will be held May 18, 2017 at Bamboo Detroit in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Our event will join dozens of other events held around the world on May 18 to raise awareness of digital accessibility in the products and services we use and design. This year's event is jointly hosted by Refresh Detroit and Ladies That UX Detroit.

If you're working on the web, creating, developing, or designing websites or content for others to use, this event is for you! Or if you want to learn how we can work together to make the web accessible to everyone, we'd love for you to attend.

For our GAAD Detroit 2017 event, we’re excited to announce two local accessibility professionals will speak on planning for accessibility in your designs and how to use an automated accessibility testing tool.

• In her Design Before Code: Thinking About Accessibility from the Ground Up talk, Caitlin Geier will discuss how to think about accessibility when designing. You don’t want to wait until it’s coded. Geier will offer accessibility tips for designers so that time will be saved in development.
• You’ll learn how to check the accessibility of your web projects in Matt Isner’s Introduction to aXE presentation. Isner will explain how to use aXe, a free Chrome extension and open source JavaScript accessibility testing engine.

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