Jozi.JS November - Innovate!

Join us for the November edition of JoziJS

Agenda:
• 18:00 - Food and blah blah.
• 18:30 - A11y Beyond the Theory: Integrating Accessibility Testing into Your Workflow - Lucky Nkosi
• 19:00 - Another talk
• 19:30 - More blah blah

Talk 1: A11y Beyond the Theory: Integrating Accessibility Testing into Your Workflow - Lucky Nkosi

Ensuring that we build accessible solutions is about more than the moral obligation of removing accessibility barriers for all. It has significant financial and commercial implications too. With more than 30% of the population living with some form of impairment, the industry is finally coming to terms with the importance of accessibility.

However, while the theory appears to be understood, accessibility considerations in software solutions are still treated as a nice-to-have and an afterthought. One of the big reasons for this is that testing for accessibility requires extra work.

In this hands-on talk, we'll go through a brief outline of what A11y is and its importance. We'll then dive into key practical tools that can be used by everyone in the software development lifecycle to ensure that the solutions we produce are as accessible as possible.

If you're interested in making sure you provide accessible software solutions for everyone, then this talk is for you.

Lucky Nkosi is the Head of the R&D unit of BBD Software, a global bespoke software development firm. He has experience in building and maintaining enterprise banking software with varying tech-stacks; all the way from VB6 and .Net to web and cloud technologies.
Some of his biggest interests are education and activism. To feed these passions, he is currently also a lecturer at Wits University and helps organise a number of community meetups in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Parking
Parking is available at The Zone, Rosebank. Parking will be validated so you do not need to pay for it.

Attending online
The meetup will be streamed on JoziJS's YouTube account. Log in when the time comes :)