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Jordan Harrison

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Software/game developer and bootcamp grad from @actualize, @ChiTownBio organizer. Also here for anti-racism resources. She/her
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Live captions for events should not be this hard (or costly) to organise

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By Jordan Harrison
| DEV Community
There is a point in every event plan where the spreadsheet starts lying to you. On paper, everything looks manageable. Venue booked. Speakers confirmed. Sponsor logos collected. Schedule mostly there, apart from that one speaker who still has not sent their title. The budget is tight, but not completely on fire. Then someone asks about accessibility. Will there be captions? Will there be an interpreter? Can deaf or hard-of-hearing attendees follow the talks?
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I tried to make DevFest Ireland accessible - and ended up building a SaaS

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By Jordan Harrison
| DEV Community
The email I couldn't ignore A few months into organising DevFest Ireland 2025, I received messages from a couple of deaf developers asking if they could attend. Not in a vague "looks interesting" kind of way. They wanted to come. They wanted to sit in the talks, meet people, be part of it properly. And the question they asked was completely fair: would there be an Irish Sign Language interpreter? I didn't have a solid answer for them at the time.
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DUNCAN McLEOD: Joburg emerges as Africa’s data centre hub

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By Duncan McLeod Verified, Jordan Harrison
| Financial Mail Verified
MCLEOD COMPUTING The city of Joburg and neighbouring Ekurhuleni may be falling apart under venal and incompetent political administrations but in one important area, South Africa’s largest urban centre — home to millions of people — is doing rather well: it is attracting significant investment into data centres.
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