European Accessibility Act & Integrated Accessibility Testing

Emma Dawson will guide you through two important topics in this session.

Firstly, she will prepare you for the European Accessibility Act (EAA), which comes into effect on 28 June 2025, and show you how development teams can prepare for it.

In the second part of the webinar, Emma Dawson will explore with you various integrated testing methods and tools that will help you improve accessibility during the development cycle, such as Linters, Storybook, Playwright, just to name a few.

Focus: European Accessibility Act, Integrated Testing tools and methods (e.g. Linters, Storybook, Playwright)

Target audience: Everyone,  Developers, Testers

Accessibility Webinar Series is the new format here at GDG Vienna. Hosted by Julia Undeutsch, every 4th Thursday of the month a new topic in the field of accessibility will be presented, which should help beginners and intermediate accessibility advocates to become more familiar with accessibility in design, development and testing.

At the end of the series, participants can look forward to a live event directly in Vienna, which will be held in autumn.

Events are held in English and last between 60-90 minutes. Afterwards, the speakers will be available for a Q&A. Questions can be asked in English or German. Questions can be asked about the respective presentation but also about accessibility in general.

Recording, slides and article can be found afterwards on the event page and on Accessibility First.

Agenda

5:00 PM: Talk

Session 1: European Accessibility Act (EAA)

5:20 PM: Talk

Session 2: Integrated Accessibility Testing

5:50 PM: Q&A

Q&A Session in English and Swedish

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Speaker

Emma Dawson - Axess Lab (Software Developer and Accessibility Specialist)

Emma is a full stack developer with a keen eye for detail, strong work ethic and desire for challenge and collaboration. She enjoys solving problems and care about doing it well. Emma has a passion for accessibility, is CPACC certified and currently pursuing the Web Accessibility Specialist certification.

Hosts

Julia Undeutsch - Atos Austria (Web Accessibility Specialist)

I am Web & UX Accessibility Specialist at Atos Austria.
After graduating University in Musicology and Japanese Studies in summer 2020, I started learning front-end development and specialized in the topic of web accessibility early on. Since then, I take every opportunity to spread awareness on the topic by regularly creating content in form of writing blog articles and such.S…

Emma Dawson - Axess Lab (Software Developer and Accessibility Specialist)

Emma is a full stack developer with a keen eye for detail, strong work ethic and desire for challenge and collaboration. She enjoys solving problems and care about doing it well. Emma has a passion for accessibility, is CPACC certified and currently pursuing the Web Accessibility Specialist certification.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-vienna-presents-european-accessibility-act-amp-integrated-accessibility-testing-2025-05-22/.