Digital Accessibility : Enhancing user experiences for persons with disabilities

We invite open-source maintainers, testers, designers, developers, human rights defenders, researchers, activists, community organizers, digital security experts working, and others currently working within FOSS communities in the Global Majority, to join our gathering.

This gathering focuses on exchanging perspectives, sharing insights, and identifying both challenges and opportunities in designing usable and accessible open source internet circumvention technologies for underrepresented and historically marginalized communities. Through open and collaborative dialogue, we’ll share best practices and collectively strategize inclusive and contextually relevant approaches. In doing so, we hope to foster a practice of mutual support and care, sustaining our effort in contributing to a safer, more equitable, and resilient digital space for those at risk.

We'll facilitate our session like a circle where each participant will get to contribute and share their stories. The outline will roughly be like this:

• Goal of the session
• Individual Introduction
• Questions for group discussion
• Note-taking and sharing