AdvancedJS Amsterdam | 7th Meetup

AdvancedJS meetup Amsterdam
- When:
Wednesday April 19th at 18h

- Location:
Xebia Wibautstraat office in Amsterdam
Wibautstraat 200
1091 GS Amsterdam

- Time table:
18.00 - 18.25 - Walk in, Drinks & Pizza 🍕

18.25 - 18.30 - Opening - by Marten de Groot
18.30 - 19.00 - Stop using JavaScript for that: moving features from JS to CSS and HTML - by Kilian Valkhof

19.00 - 19.30 - Small break and drinks 🍻

19.30 - 20.00 - Identifying and fixing the most common web accessibility issues - by Tatiane Aguirres Nogueira

20.00 - 21.30 - Drinks and networking

Program Overview:
Stop using JavaScript for that: moving features from JS to CSS and HTML
Common patterns implemented with JavaScript are being replaced with 'native' CSS and HTML equivalents that end up being more performant, more accessible and more resilient. Features like accordions, auto-suggest, smooth scrolling, dialogs, parallax scrolling and more no longer need JavaScript to work. We'll walk through common JS features that now have CSS and HTML equivalents that you can use, or will soon be able to use.

Speaker: Kilian Valkhof
Kilian Valkhof is the creator of Polypane, the browser for building websites. He wrote his first article on mobile web design all the way back in 2008 (with an exciting look ahead at "media features"!) and hasn't stopped thinking about responsive websites since. Kilian is a solo developer building his and hopefully your dream browser, he writes about the web on kilianvalkhof.com and anywhere else he's allowed to, and is an active open source contributor.

Identifying and fixing the most common web accessibility issues
In this talk, you will learn how to identify the most common WCAG 2 failures using a screen reader and browser extensions, and the best way to fix them through good practices and semantic development.

Speaker: Tatiane Aguirres Nogueira