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Speech Accessibility In Games From The Perspective of a Person Who Stutters
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.

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Speech Accessibility In Games From The Perspective of a Person Who Stutters
Colorblind Considerations when Creating Accessible Charts and Graphs
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.
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Colorblind Considerations when Creating Accessible Charts and Graphs
Real AI Solutions for Accessibility Challenges
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.

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Real AI Solutions for Accessibility Challenges
An inclusive design workflow for teams
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.
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An inclusive design workflow for teams
Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages
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.
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Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages