Lived accessibility – the end user perspective
It is often said that end users should be more involved in development, design, and testing. What are the main barriers for this to happen, and are there good examples to learn from?
Accessibility improvements – the public sector perspective
This session will discuss the balance between compliance reporting and user needs in accessibility statements, as well as continuous improvement of accessibility in a fast moving environment among public sector bodies.
Overlays – the policy perspective
A brief overview of the current situation in Europe when it comes to overlays, made by Roberto Scano, senior ICT accessibility expert. The panel will discuss the end user perspective of overlays as well as technical aspects, focusing on how new technology should best be handled from a policy perspective.
Colorblind Considerations when Creating Accessible Charts and Graphs
We share some things you can do to make your graphic colors accessible and review the WCAG success criteria 1.4.1 Use of Color. Dax gives you some easy ways to make your maps more accessible and Chad shares the color contrast ratio for Graphics and his preferences for making line graphs more accessible.
Xbox Accessibility Disability Etiquette
In an effort to help, Xbox has put together a training session to help game developers have enjoyable and productive interactions with people with disabilities. This video covers the basics of interacting with people with various categories of disabilities. After watching it, you should feel better prepared and more comfortable working with gamers with disabilities.
Creating Accessible Cultural Experiences
Accessibility consultancy TPGi discusses the development of the Bloomberg Connects app and what it means to create accessible cultural experiences.
Modernizing the Patient Experience with Self Check-in
This case study involves developing kiosks in the healthcare industry.
Speech Accessibility In Games From The Perspective of a Person Who Stutters
Patrycja Polowczyk dives into speech accessibility and different mechanics that games implement in order to facilitate and enhance cooperation and information flow.
This talk focuses on exploring the solutions that work and those that fall short for people with speech disabilities.
Strategic Leader in Accessibility Webinar Series
Engaging the C-suite to drive accessibility.
The International Association of Accessibility Professionals Youtube Channel
The International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) is a not-for-profit membership-based organization for individuals and organizations that are focused on accessibility or are in the process of building their accessibility skills and strategies.
Session V: Smart Campus Maturity Model Quick Wins
Accessibility vs. Inclusive Design
"Accessible design" and "inclusive design" are often used interchangeably. While they are related, their focuses are different.
How to write Semantic CSS
Most people know about semantic HTML, but when it comes to CSS, things are a little more wishy-washy most of the time. Rather than relying on arbitrary class names, we can use different semantic selectors though!
What autistic people can teach you about communication
Autistic activist Kailey Sieja draws on her own (sometimes humorous) experience as an autistic person to demonstrate the surprising lessons we can learn from individuals with ASD.
Real AI Solutions for Accessibility Challenges
Large language models and the coding tools built around them (Github, Amazon Code Whisperer) have made it faster than ever to create code. However, since the majority of the code used to train these models is itself inaccessible, the code completions they offer are more often than not, inaccessible.
The good news for accessibility is, there are some important techniques that get around this problem. Come learn how it's easier than ever to build web and mobile experiences the right way from the get-go.
Building UX research practices for inclusion
Join Maureen, former behavioral researcher turned UXR, and Josh, an accessibility lead at Veterans Affairs, for a deep dive into the common pitfalls of inclusive UX research from the projection bias of expert testers to the unequal distribution of power during analysis.
Join Maureen, former behavioral researcher turned UXR, and Josh, an accessibility lead at Veterans Affairs, for a deep dive into the common pitfalls of inclusive UX research from the projection bias of expert testers to the unequal distribution of power during analysis. They’ll share actionable guidance on how to further mature an inclusive research practice from purposeful sampling strategies to intersectional awareness and equitable hiring practices.
360° Accessible Book Publishing
In this talk, we will go through some accessibility actions for everyone in the publishing industry.
An inclusive design workflow for teams
In this talk, Scott Vinkle will share his experience while working with Shopify's Flagship Themes team. Scott will explain how he implemented a new team-wide workflow which included accessibility in each aspect of the product creation lifecycle. This resulted in the team shipping highly accessible themes by default.
Removing Bias with Wizard of Oz Screen Reader
Learn about our process, trials and errors, and successes we’ve had in adapting the Wizard of Oz method for screen readers.
Learn about our process, trials and errors, and successes we’ve had in adapting the Wizard of Oz method for screen readers.
Trauma-informed Website Design
If a doctor, therapist, or police officer can communicate in a trauma-informed way, why can’t a website?
In this session, you'll gain practical tips, free tools, and places for further learning. Walk away with concrete plans to make your website more trauma-informed.
Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages
In this talk I will instead focus on some of the smaller steps that we as designers and technologists can take to make the web a more inclusive and welcoming place for our minority language users.
The technical challenges for minority languages can seem insurmountable; research & development is often market driven, and by definition, minority languages can’t promise large profits to Big Tech and so are overlooked. However, in this talk I will instead focus on some of the smaller steps that we as designers and technologists can take to make the web a more inclusive and welcoming place for our minority language users.
How to be inclusive to neurodiverse people
First there’s an overview of the different neurodiverse conditions, then we talk about why inclusion is important, then finally you’ll be given 7 tips on how you can be more inclusive. Interaction is optional and if you’d like to join in, please bring a pen and paper.
The indisputable truth about accessibility
Almost 50% of 1.5 million Dutch people use one or more of digital accessibility settings. In my talk I will share the insights and learnings from this research. This helped me to convince others to focus on a11y from the beginning. Now it will help you, too.
The UX of accessibility checklist
There are many different accessibility checklist you can find on Internet. But what makes a great one? And how can you integrate it to your process? These are the 2 main questions I will cover in this talk.
Really inclusive online conferences
In this presentation I'll look at the decisions that went into our efforts to make our conferences as inclusive as possible, with particular focus on our accessibility efforts–including our ARIA Live Region based accessible slides system, that makes one of the least accessible aspects of any presentation, slides, as accessible as possible.
Overlays Underwhelm
Accessibility overlays bring promises of accessible sites in one line of code, but experiences from users tell us the opposite. We will look at the guarantees, the marketing efforts, the code efforts, and lived experiences of users.
Inclusive Persona Extension
I would like to introduce "Inclusive Persona Extension", a tool to facilitate the consideration of accessibility in the web design process.
Empathy is broken - Moving from cognition to compassion
Join a designer with a devoted nonviolent communication practice to learn about practices that will help you expand your empathy practice to reduce harm and address needs.
The Recipe for Making Accessible Widgets
In this session, we will explore the distinct layers of making an accessible widget and go through its design considerations.
Web Accessibility for Speech Recognition users
In this session, we’ll figure out how speech recognition supports different accessibility techniques and what coding practices we should avoid. Additionally, we’ll learn about best practices for enhancing user experiences for speech recognition users.
Creating Accessible Google Slides
Use the built-in accessibility features of Google Slides to create accessible presentations.