Building an Inclusive Web

Did you know that 98% of the top million homepages have on accessibility violations? How about that 70% of popular websites are unavailable to people with blindness? Is your software in that group?

As technical leaders its our responsibility to make the web inclusive. In this talk, we take a look at why it has become so exclusive, the top 5 most common accessibility problems on the web, how to fix them, and techniques and tools your teams can add to their everyday workflow to begin creating a more inclusive web!

About Larene Le Gassick

Larene is an engineer at Datalust, creators of Seq logging. Since her first client at ThoughtWorks more than 5 years ago, where she learnt about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for the first time, she's been spreading accessibility knowledge as a not-so-secret side mission at many companies since then. She's also managed to sneak her talks into NDC, YOW!, and other conferences and meetups. Her goal is to make accessibility easier to understand for all developers.

Online Format:

5:30 - Chat & Network (Meeting will open at 5:15)
5:45 - Welcome & Presentation
6:30 - Breakout discussion groups, lean coffee style
6:45 - Group Discussion, key takeaways
7 pm - Close (but really, just more chatting)

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