Dallas needs some fresh AIR!
I relocated to Dallas a few years ago, but not a day goes by that I don’t miss Austin, Texas. I miss running around Town Lake, taking a dip in Barton Springs, and just being outside in all the green space that makes Austin so cool.
Austin also happens to be the birthplace of the first Accessibility Internet Rally known as AIR-Austin. AIR is a web design contest focused on creating web sites that are accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities who may use assistive technology to browse the web.
During a one-day AIR rally, teams of web designers and developers are matched with local non-profits to build web sites that are accessible for people with disabilities. The web sites are then judged based upon the WCAG accessibility guidelines and Section 508 Guidelines for Web Accessibility.
Since 1998, AIR rallies have popped up in cities like Boston, San Francisco, & Denver. Houston and San Antonio even have their own rallies. I think it’s high time that Dallas got in the game! I know some very cool designers and developers that would love to be involved. Anyone else interested?
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An Abercrombie And Fitch
An Abercrombie And Fitch employee in northern California is alleging she was fired for refusing to remove her hijab, or headscarf marking her Muslim observance. Abercrombie pursuit of a homogeneous army of "perfect" employees appears to have snared it again!
Abercrombie Clothing to the AP, "the Council on Abercrombie UK Relations said Wednesday it filed an Equal Abercrombie London Opportunity Commission complaint on behalf of Hani Khan." Abercrombie Fitch says she was told she would be allowed to wear a Abercrombie Outlet, but a visiting district manager disputed that. She says she was fired when she refused to take it off.
In 2008, an Abercrombie And Fitch accused Abercrombie of refusing to hire her because her head scarf "didn't fit the chain's image." That lawsuit, filed last year, is still in progress.
Abercrombie in the company's serious on-the-ground sensitivity issues: Abercrombie Clothing to let a woman help her autistic sister try on Abercrombie UK, for which they were fined $115,264, and banishing an employee with a prosthetic arm from the store floor. That employee, Riam Dean, was awarded ￡8,000 for unlawful harassment, although the tribunal ruled that she hadn't suffered disability discrimination.
Abercrombie London has a well-documented mission of selling its idea of youthful physical perfection, Abercrombie Fitch the Bruce Weber ad campaigns to the employees that fit its ideal of American beauty. The company conceded that that ideal didn't include black, Abercrombie Outlet, and Asian employees in 2004 when it paid $40 million to employees and job applicants of those demographics to settle a class-action federal discrimination lawsuit. They had been accused of "engaging in recruiting and hiring practices that exclude minorities and adopting a virtually all-white marketing campaign."
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