A11Y.Lowlands

The first edition of our Monthly A11Y sessions by the lowlands.community. Every month we bring you 2 topics around accessibility, mostly on the 15 of December in the europan morning hour.

You can view the schedule on: https://techa11y.dev/

Forced colors explained
Forced colors, or Windows high contrast mode (a "misnomer", we'll get to that), is a way for browsers to completely overwrite your websites design with a user specified style. The CSS Media query of the same name can help you adapt, or compensate, for this radical change in your sites design. But what should you adapt to, and how? Join Kilian in this talk to explore the what, why and how of forced colors.

Kilian Valkhof
Founder at Polypane browser for developers
Kilian is a front-end developer with over 20 years of experience that switched from building websites to building apps to build websites with. He is interested in modern web development, desktop app development and new technologies, and regularly speaks about topics like responsive websites, design systems and Electron. Kilian is a frequent open source contributor.

Practically Accessible
A wake-up call how small changes have big impact on screen readers and other assistive technology. This may be the first time attendees actually experience a screen-reader.

Derk-Jan Karrenbeld
Bosmang at Delft Solutions & Tech Wizard at NoticeSound
I complain about (in)accessibility and bad customer support. Helping devs achieve fluency at exercism.org. On the spectrum & Cancer survivor (x2).