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Durham-Raleigh A11y: The Accessibility Meetup-Triangle Style - December Event December 16th Event at Microsoft:Hip, hip, hooray!!!!  Thanks to Microsoft and Jalen, we have a new location -- Microsoft's office in Morrisville, NC -- which should prove much more accessible and quieter for our meetings. Microsoft requires RSVPs, so make sure to RSVP by 11:45pm on Sunday, December 14, 2025. Please RSVP via Evite at https://evite.me/EFqbcDAqpR (external link, opens in new tab). Meeting from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm We plan to interject our regular accessibility dialogues with merry celebrations of winter holidays, of the end of 2025, of a new and more accessible meeting space, and of any thing else that seems worth celebrating at this December get together. Events in Morrisville, NC Accessibility UI/UX Design Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - WCAG Software Development Software Engineers For those needing to schedule a trip here is the address. Microsoft ...

I found this post on Threads today and need to share it. This is what it all really is about. This kid creates a video to say thanks to NVDA a screen reader and demonstrates how he uses it. Its things like this that motivates me to push forward through all of the training I have in the future to become an assistive technology instructor. https://www.threads.com/@nvaccesslimited/post/DR4HXBtkkx1 -- 🚀 Join My Journey I’ll be sharing more like this — along with my mission through the galaxies of accessibility, blindness retraining, and certification to become an assistive technology instructor.  That journey will take me to World Services for the Blind, and I’ll be chronicling it at www.AccessITales.blog 

I thought I'd share my plans for this upcoming Saturday as maybe it will help you. I need to have exact cash for an upcoming paratransit ride. This isn't my normal paratransit service that is still free until June 2026, this is a more regional paratransit service that works outside my local area. There is a flat fee of $5 each way, which is much cheaper than using Lyft or Uber and its about the same pickup and return times as what I'm used to with services like Go Durham Access. Its something that I need exact change for and I haven't needed to do that in awhile. I am not a customer of any local bank and got to thinking what to do. Then it came to me. I can use the Aira app at Walmart for free, have fun doing a little shopping and get cash back when I checkout and ask for that in $5 bills, I'm only getting $30 cash back at the most and if I can only get a mix of $5 and $1 bills, that is no big deal. I am taking my regular local paratransit service...