Meetups

22 January 2024 Talk Beyond compliance, meeting people’s needs Caspian Turner WCAG offers an excellent framework. It is a good foundation for ensuring websites work with assistive technologies and that content is understandable for everyone. However, conducting usability studies involving users with a diverse range of needs is crucial to ensuring your website works for…

7 November 2023 Talks Accessibility is a design choice Gunnar Bittersmann Top design-focused issues of 2022: low text, color contrast, empty links & buttons, missing image alt text, skipped & missing headings, missing form labels. Collaborarion of designers and developers: documenting accessibility & user interactions. Intro to Mobile App Accessibility Rachael Yomtoob Accessibility for the…

13 September 2023 Talks Let’s respect the preferences of our users Sergei Vakhrushev We are so satisfied we can wear what we want, eat what we want, and say what we want. Of course, it is not everywhere, some cities/counties are citizen-friendly, while others are not. And, I’m pretty sure, most people prefer the first.…

5 October 2022 Talks How to write text alternatives Marc Haunschild Providing information for non-textual content can be quite challenging and it involves a quite big number of success criteria. So I thought it could be a could idea to sum up all the questions, answers and examples I gave throughout the years and make…

20 January 2021 Talks Designing for the extremes – design thinking and turning everyone into an a11y persona Beatriz Gonzalez Mellidez (Principal Product Designer, SinnerSchrader) When we design for average users, we are missing the sweet spot that leads to innovation and disruption. Many customers don’t want to hear the word accessibility but get excited…

9 June 2020 Talks Living With Asperger’s Dr. Ian McDonald (CTO in residence, Microsoft for Startups) Dr Ian McDonald has been a visionary technology leader for over 20 years and is currently CTO in residence at Microsoft for Startups covering Western Europe. He’s previously lead teams at a range of corporates and startups & built…

12 May 2020 Talks Accessibility in video games Taner Aydin (Web dev and accessibility consultant) When I’ve started in accessibility I learned a lot about real life a11y, regulations, mandatory a11y for public sector websites and apps and hopefully soon mandatory accessibility for the private sector as well. These are all the minimum requirements for…

17 March 2020 Talks Build Web with empathy Manjula Dube (Web Engineer, N26) Building web applications has been fairly easy now, However, an often-missing ingredient in many web applications is a focus on accessibility best practices — especially when component libraries are part of their application. Nothing in frameworks prevents us from building accessible web…

28 October 2019 Talks How to build empathy for strangers with special needs Kai Katonina, UX designer at DKB If you don’t have disabled people around, it might be hard to see people behind the formal requirements of WCAG. Of course the best strategy is to meet them personally, but it’s not always easy. I…

2 July 2019 Talks A11y checklist for everyone Priyanka Naik, Front-end developer and accessibility in-charge at diesdas.digital I believe A11y is a team effort and everyone has a role to play in the project. So, I have checklist for specific roles like for project manager, UI/UX designer, and developer. The Idea is to present the…