Why This Advocate Keeps Hosting Accessibility Hackathons on Her Birthday

Alanna Raffel

To celebrate her 30th birthday in 2017, occupational therapist and accessibility advocate Alanna Raffel got her friends together to create a database of physically accessible venues in Philly.

The following year, as she hit 31, she reassembled the group to add captions to popular YouTube videos.

This year, in honor of her 32nd birthday, Raffel is organizing a describe-a-thon: On May 11, she’ll gather friends and family to add image descriptions to popular Facebook pages, memes and other sites in a push to increase access to the internet for people who use adaptive technology like screen readers.

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