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+title: "Friday Hacks #261, September 6: On Accessibility Testing and Migrating Codebases to the Web"
+date: 2024-09-02 14:00:15.5144
+author: Chua Jun Yu
+url: /2024/09/friday-hacks-261
+summary: Discover more about Purple A11y, an open-source tool to automate accessibility testing, and hear about the various challenges faced when migrating a legacy codebase to the web!
+---
+
+**Date/Time:** Friday, September 6 at 7:00pm SGT<br />
+**Venue:** <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1.2949252184799644%2C103.77431055530907">Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS</a><br />
+**Sign-up Link:** [Sign-up here](https://hckr.cc/fh-260-signup)<br />
+
+> **Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served!**
+
+<img src="/img/2024/fh/261-1.jpg" alt="Friday Hacks #261 Poster 1" /><br />
+
+
+## 1) Accessibility Testing with Purple A11y
+
+Discover how GovTech developers champion digital inclusivity and empower users using Purple A11y, an open-source automated web accessibility testing tool. Learn to leverage this customisable tool to scan sites for accessibility issues, enabling you to find and fix problems, and improve access for persons with disabilities (PWDs) to digital services. Developed by GovTech's Accessibility (A11y) team, Purple A11y supports software development teams building inclusive products from the outset.
+
+### Speaker Profile 🎙️
+
+Zui Young is a DevOps and Quality Engineer at GovTech Singapore. He believes in the power of technology to improve people's lives. He is passionate about DevOps, cybersecurity and e-accessibilty domains. He has a wide experience in developing software, from building monolith to serverless architechture applications.<br /><br />
+
+<img src="/img/2024/fh/261-2.jpg" alt="Friday Hacks #261 Poster 2" /><br />
+
+
+## 2) AutoCAD's Journey to the Web
+
+This talk will describe how AutoCAD's legacy code base was migrated to the Web using Emscripten and WebAssembly. Attendees can expect to hear about the various challenges that come with this migration and the various approaches taken to overcome them. 
+
+### Speaker Profile 🎙️
+
+Kevin Cheung is a developer with the AutoCAD team and is passionate about generating innovative solutions through the use of cutting-edge technologies. He is currently working on Machine Learning and WebAssembly.<br /><br />
+
+👋 See you there!

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         title: How I Won GovTech Singapore's LLM Prompt Engineering Competition Then Built 3 LLM Products In 2024
         from: Singapore Government
 
-  - venue: NUS Computing (Room TBC)
+  - venue: <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1.2949252184799644%2C103.77431055530907">Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS</a>
+    blog_post: /2024/09/friday-hacks-261
     topics:
       - speaker: Lim Zui Young
         title: Accessibility Testing with Purple A11y
         from: GovTech Singapore
       - speaker: Kevin Cheung
-        title: TBD
+        title: AutoCAD's Journey to the Web
+        from: AutoCAD
 
-  - venue: NUS Computing (Room TBC)
+  - venue: <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1.2949252184799644%2C103.77431055530907">Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS</a>
     topics:
       - speaker: Michael Hu
         title: TBD
         from: NUS
       - speaker: Nguyen Khoi Nguyen
         title: TBD
 
-  - venue: NUS Computing (Room TBC)
+  - venue: <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1.2949252184799644%2C103.77431055530907">Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS</a>
     topics:
       - speaker: Adrian Goh
         title: One Engineer, 400,000 Users