ASP.NET Core Meets Accessibility: A Killer Combination

Accessibility is often treated as a compliance checkbox or a front-end concern. In reality, it’s a full-stack engineering discipline that makes your applications more usable, more resilient, and easier to maintain.

In this session, we’ll take a real ASP.NET Core application and walk through how accessibility is designed and implemented in production code. Instead of abstract WCAG rules or theoretical advice, we'll review concrete, practical patterns you can use immediately in your own projects.

We’ll explore how accessibility shows up across the stack, including:

Semantic HTML and Razor markup that works naturally with screen readers

Accessible forms, validation, and error feedback

Keyboard navigation and focus management in real workflows

Common accessibility pitfalls that automated tools miss

Whether you’re building new features or modernizing an existing app, you’ll leave with practical techniques to build inclusive, production-ready ASP.NET Core applications without significantly slowing down your development velocity.

This session is designed for full-stack developers who want to ship better software, reduce risk, and create experiences that work for everyone.

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The Nashville .NET User Group meets every second Thursday of the month.

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Agenda

5:30 PM - Meeting venue open / virtual meeting starts

5:50 PM - Opening announcements

6:00 PM - Speaker starts (roughly 1 hour)

End times vary but we also do networking at the end of our meetings