Have your voice heard, and get involved with a specific focus area within the Chamber. Committees influence our Strategic Plan, events and initiatives.
The Cobb Workforce Partnership (CWP) works to address the current and future workforce needs and concerns by bringing together leaders from the business community, K-12 educational systems, postsecondary education institutions, and other stakeholders for focused dialogue. CWP works together to help establish a pipeline of job-ready workers in Cobb County by sharing ideas, expertise, and resources to strengthen workforce development in the county.
To learn more, contact Twana Roots at troots@cobbchamber.org.
Ambassadors serve as volunteer Chamber liaisons by contacting new members, attending Chamber functions and facilitating personal connections among members. By acclimating new members to the Chamber's programs and services, Ambassadors serve as mentors to fellow members.
To learn more, contact Elizabeth Colletti at ecolletti@cobbchamber.org.
The DE&I Council works to promote, influence, and advance our diversity mission throughout the Cobb Chamber and the community through four focus areas: entrepreneurship development, leadership development and programs, marketing and communications, and membership engagement.
In each focus area, the Council is working to have an engaged and welcoming membership and board reflective of our community and create a thriving environment for minority owned entrepreneurs in Cobb.
To learn more, contact Monica Gonzalez at mgonzalez@cobbchamber.org.
The Cobb Chamber is proud to serve as a pro-business advocate for its over 2,500 members. Activities at the local, state and federal government affect your business. Our Government Affairs Committee meets regularly throughout the year, and is open to anyone interested in staying informed on critical issues facing businesses.
To learn more, contact Amanda Seals at aseals@cobbchamber.org.
Our International Committee brings together business leaders to effectively market Cobb as an international business destination, inform local business on how to expand globally, and creating pathways for international businesses to engage with the local business community.
To learn more, contact Amanda Blanton at ablanton@cobbchamber.org.
The Public Safety committee helps plan our annual Public Safety Breakfast and Appreciation Week and selects the various award winners. This committee brings business together with local public safety agencies across the county and cities, including fire, police, EMS, 911, school resource officers, GBI, Georgia State Patrol, animal control, and all public safety agencies.
To learn more, contact Katie Guice at kguice@cobbchamber.org.
The Team Dobbins Committee brings together business professionals and military leaders to advocate on behalf of and communicate the value of Dobbins Air Reserve Base.
To learn more, contact Amanda Seals at aseals@cobbchamber.org.
Our Transportation and Mobility Committee meets to discuss local, state and federal transportation initiatives impacting Cobb County and the surrounding region.
To learn more, contact Amanda Seals at aseals@cobbchamber.org.
SelectCobb’s Entrepreneurship & Small Business Series aims to provide a blend of meaningful programming that will encourage a thriving environment for minority entrepreneurs and business owners in Cobb. The Entrepreneurship & Small Business Series developed out of the Entrepreneurship Committee’s desire to engage with entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses of all backgrounds and industries in Cobb County and connect them to meaningful education, networking, and mentorship opportunities.
To learn more, contact Katie Scott Troy at ktroy@cobbchamber.org.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to