Keep it Simple. Accessible Design Thinking

Media

Presented at 4:00pm in Westminster II on Thursday, November 15, 2018.

Speaker(s)

• Eric Eggert, Knowbility

Session Details

• Length of Session: 1-hr
• Format: Lecture
• Expertise Level: Beginner
• Type of session: General Conference

Summary

ARIA. HTML. CSS. Animation. Interaction. The Web in 2018 is incredibly complex. In this Talk, Eric Eggert shows how to use accessible design principles to plan, communicate, and implement accessibility in projects from the start.

Abstract

ARIA. HTML. CSS. Animation. Interaction. The Web in 2018 is incredibly complex. In this Talk, Eric Eggert shows how to use accessible design principles to plan, communicate, and implement accessibility in projects. Get over the need for expensive after-the-fact accessibility tests and the resulting refactoring of your website. Implementing accessibility as a fundamental design principle also benefits other areas, for example, it can result in better reliability on slow networks or improved usability in diverse user scenarios.

Keypoints

1. Implement thinking about Accessibility in your day-to-day work
2. Avoid do-overs and refactoring
3. Deliver the most accessible product, exceeding regulation, without additional planning

Disability Areas

All Areas

Topic Areas

Other, Teaching about Accessibility in Curriculum, Uncategorized, Web/Media/App Access

Speaker Bio(s)

Eric Eggert

Eric works with Knowbility to make the web more accessible for people with disabilities and easier to use for everyone. His assignments include being a fellow at W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative where he helped to write guidance for developers and tools for people testing websites.