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February 3 Talks
Application security
by Nadir Hajiyani
Why Making Your Website Accessible Should Be a Priority
by Kim Kubali
Ensuring a website can be used by people with disabilities doesn’t have to be an additional layer of work for your project. Many of the considerations involved in making your site more accessible will improve design and usability as well as SEO rankings. Drupal includes many tools out of the box for a more accessible website. However, understanding accessibility features can help your site be even more inclusive.
In this presentation, we will discuss:
- Who needs accessibility on a website.
- How to address the key challenges of creating an accessible website.
- How to create a workflow for an accessible website.
- How accessibility features can assist with a well designed website.
- Introduce tools in Drupal that will get you started.
Bio
Kim is a developer at the United Nations supporting a wide range of Drupal sites. She has developed websites using various technologies for 20 years and used Drupal for the last 10 years. She lives in NYC.
Faster by default
by Ben Morss
By now, we’ve all heard about the importance of web performance. But how can you tell whether your site is fast enough? And how can you get the most impact for the least work? We'll talk about the new Core Web Vitals metrics and show how to measure and monitor those for your site. Then we'll go through some ways to speed up your Drupal site, and we'll share ideas for how Drupal sites could be faster by default.
Bio
Ben Morss is a Developer Advocate at Google, where he’s working to help the Web be faster and more beautiful. Prior to Google, he worked at the New York Times and AOL, and before that he was a full-time musician. He earned his BA in Computer Science at Harvard and a PhD in Music at the University of California. Rumor is that he still runs a band called Ancient Babies.
Joining the video conference
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More upcoming DrupalNYC events
Unless stated otherwise, our (virtual) meetups are on the first Wednesday of each month and start at 6pm ET.
March 3: March meetup
We're still confirming, but we might have talks on rebuilding a Drupal 7 site in Drupal 8 and on "Building a High Availability Environment for Drupal with Azure"
April 7: April meetup
There shall be a meetup! Want to help organize it? Something new and different? Join us in the #meetup-organize channel on DrupalNYC Slack and let's make it happen!
Lunch and Learns
Why should you sacrifice more valuable after work time than you have to? We're planning to shorten our evening meetups and start offering weekday "Lunch and Learns" online at 12pm Eastern Time. Expect one or two talks over lunch hour and an opportunity to connect with the DrupalNYC community.
Tell us when you can join us over lunch
Interested in speaking at a Lunch & Learn or have a topic you'd like us to find a speaker for? speak@drupalnyc.org
More upcoming Drupal events
- Florida DrupalCamp is online Feb 18-20. $10 early bird registration through the end of January. Session submissions are due Feb 5.
- DrupalCon North America is online April 12-16. $195 early bird pricing ends Feb 3. Session submissions are due Feb 14.
Find more events at drupal.org/community/events.
January 13 meetup recording
Board updates
DrupalNYC Incorporated is the non-profit that supports our monthly meetups and DrupalCampNYC. The volunteer Board of Directors ensures that DrupalNYC pursues its non-profit mission. The Board, which had its annual meeting on Wednesday, would like to:
- Thank Scott Wolpow (outgoing Director and Secretary) for his service
- Thank Ho-Ling Poon (outgoing Treasurer) for her service
- Thank Shawn Duncan for his service as Chair and welcome him for another term as Chair
- Welcome existing Director Kris Brandow as Treasurer; and
- Welcome new Director and Secretary JD Leonard
Minutes from past board meetings and a recently adopted bylaw amendment allowing flexibility in setting officer terms will be reflected on our website in the coming weeks.
The Board can be reached at board@drupalnyc.org
Stay in touch
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Interested in sponsoring a future meetup? We'd love to hear from you: sponsor@drupalnyc.org
We always need more speakers! Volunteer to speak or request a topic: speak@drupalnyc.org
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