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Scripting Enabled is a free two day event in London on the 19th and 20th of September 2008. The goals of the event are:

• to build accessible interfaces to currently inaccessible services,
• get hackers and non-technical people who know about accessibility problems to talk and
• release documentation and tools based on real issues to make the web a more inclusive place.

This event is separated into two different parts and you need to book separate tickets!

Day 1: Facts about accessibility

The first day is dedicated to getting real information about accessibility barriers of online systems and techniques to work around them.

This is a speaking and discussing event held in the Henry Thomas Room of the Metropolitan University of London at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB (Google Maps).

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There is space for 150 people and the event is free.

This day is for:

• Developers that will come on the second day to find out what needs building
• Anybody who wants to learn about accessibility barriers from those who get blocked by them and not from theory
• Anybody who wants to share their experiences in being blocked out from online services because of their ability

We have 150 tickets all in all and you can order your ticket for Day 1 here

Day 2: Accessibility Hacking

The second day is a development event where we will try to build solutions and alternative interfaces into existing systems that work around the issues we learned about on the first day.

The event takes place at the Gamelab offices in 35 Kingsland Rd, London, E2 8AA

There is a limited space for 50 people.

This day is for:

• Developers that want to build truly accessible interfaces and legal hacks around currently inaccessible systems
• People that can give real information based on research and user testing to hep developers build the right things
• Testers that can give us a real user experience rather than having to simulate it.

We have 50 tickets all in all and you can order your ticket for Day 2 here

General Event Info

The whole event is meant to have results, not just be another inspirational summit. All the presentations and developed solutions will be released as Creative Commons and Open Source for you to implement and use afterwards.

We’re keeping the event as self-sustaining as possible. It is free but there won’t be any goodie-bags or T-Shirts. What we received from our sponsors (Channel 4, The Guardian, Yahoo, justgiving.com) will go into catering, travel costs of guest speakers and follow-up events instead. We are very happy to have found the Metropolitan University and Gamelabs as partners for this event as they are kind enough to give us both a venue and helpers to deal with a lot of the admin.

Hope to see you in September and then we take this on the road!

Chris Heilmann