Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Refresh Detroit started! From meeting in restaurants, cafes, and bars with three to five people in the early years to meetups with over 75 people, we’ve seen a lot of change in the past ten years.
We hope you’ve enjoyed our meetups!
To celebrate our tenth anniversary, we’re planning a trip to the ball park, Comerica Park, to watch the Detroit Tigers. Continue reading
Thanks to Refresh Detroit member Maria Gosur for sharing her notes from our July 2016 meetup, Introduction to Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA), with speaker Matt Isner, a JavaScript developer at Deque Systems. Continue reading
Last Thursday, over 45 people attended our third annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Detroit event, including a few walk-ins. Our Refresh Detroit members traveled from East Lansing, Ann Arbor, and throughout metro Detroit to hear Al Puzzuoli talk about screen readers and get hands on with screen readers on their own laptops.
We saw familiar faces as well as many new members! We hope you enjoyed Al’s presentation and hands-on screen reader session as much as we did! Continue reading