You are the champion of accessible content

Automation is big in the world of accessibility testing. But it can’t check everything. Even using AI, automated tests can’t measure how accessible content is. No tool, not even reading calculators, can tell you how accessible or understandable your words are.

Creating accessible content involves balancing context, nuance and complexity in language with the need to make content clear and understandable.

You need a human to consider the human experience that writers think about while they’re creating content. And to consider whether that human experience has any inherent accessibility barriers.

Writers are the champions of quality, accessible content. This presentation looks at some ways you can check how accessible your content is. Whatever kind of content you’re creating, we’ll look at some key points you can consider while you’re working to build more accessible content.

About Katherine

Katherine Barcham has had an eventful career, spending most of it working in her 2 passion areas: writing and accessibility. If you’ve met or heard Katherine speak, you know she’s obsessed with making content accessible for everyone.

As a Web Standards Consultant, Katherine is focused on accessibility across all of government. She has decades of experience in accessibility testing, training people, and educating and advocating for more accessible products and services. Katherine absolutely loves getting a chance to talk with fellow writers and work together to find ways they can make their content accessible to even more people.