Accessibility Events in September
Republishing of the September edition, with even more events!
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Inclusive Design 24 #id24
Thursday 12th September 2024
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analog to digital, from design to development, from planners to practitioners, and everything and everyone in between.
A11y Book Club Meeting: Web Accessibility Cookbook with Manuel Matuzović
Tuesday, September 17, 8 - 9pm CEST
Whether you're a seasoned expert or just starting to learn about web accessibility, this event is for you. Get ready to delve into practical tips and tricks for making the web more inclusive for all users.
There's more to accessibility than WCAG
Thursday 26th September, 4 pm BST
The Digital Accessibility Experts Live from Hassell Inclusion is a staple in this newsletter by now, and deservingly so! Because they
WCAG is the most globally used and commonly understood set of accessibility guidelines used by organisations to ensure the accessibility of websites, apps and other digital comms for people with disabilities. It is the yard stick by which the accessibility of digital products is usually measured.
However, while it is brilliant in many areas, there are many elements of accessibility and needs of people with disabilities that the current version of WCAG (2.2) doesn't adequately cover.
While WCAG 3.0 will expand into some of these in the future, how do you bring that future into the work you're doing right now, especially when regulations require for you address the needs of people that WCAG overlooked?
How Articulate uses a prioritization framework to drive accessibility maturity
Thursday, September 26, at 2 pm ET
Deque and Articulate’s accessibility team join forces to provide an inside look at how they’ve operationalized their accessibility program with the help of a maturity model and prioritization framework.
Join the webinar to learn:
How Articulate has built a sustainable program
How to build your own accessibility maturity model
How to prioritize accessibility issues effectively using the right framework
How to measure the success of your framework and impact on customers
in-Person
Berlin: Rollende Demo - Barrierefreiheit Jetzt
Dienstag 10. September, Beginn 10 Uhr
Demonstration für eine inklusive Gesellschaft, in der jede*r Zugang zu Mobilität, Wohnen, Gesundheit und digitaler Teilhabe hat.
Start: Brandenburger Tor
Ende: Bundesjustizministerium, mit mehreren Stopps bei Ministerien und kurzen Ansprachen.
[German only] DMVÖ & Anwert: Deine Webseite für alle - Barrierefreiheit interaktiv entdecken!
Thursday 12 September, 9:00 - 12:00, Anwert Digital GmbH Wien
Kosten: 189€ pro Person, für DMVÖ Mitglieder kostenlos
Der Workshop unter der Leitung von Mina Nabinger befasst sich mit den Fragen:
Was heisst Barrierefreiheit und warum ist es so wichtig?
Wie beinflussen Barrieren die Erfahrung der Nutzenden?
Wie barrierefrei sind bekannte Websiten?
Was sind die häufigsten Fehler und wie kann ich diese beheben?
UX Con Vienna
September 17-19
The 2024 conference brings a pleasant variety of accessibility-centric workshops.
Accessibility is not a checklist!
Yet many focus on checking all the boxes to make their UI accessible and miss the bigger picture. Accessibility is not the goal in itself, but simply a means to an end: an inclusive experience for all users!
In this workshop, participants will learn how to spot the most common accessibility bugs plaguing an assistive tech user’s journey. Don’t know what types of assistive technology (or AT for short) is out there in the big wide world? No worries! Laura, UX Researcher for the AT development company Hope Tech, will explain what exists, how it works and what’s so cool about it. Spoiler alert: It’s the ability to provide access.
Web accessibility has to be anchored in the code, which can look scary at first. But don’t worry! Google Development Expert Julia will guide you through the other side of the console.log and teach you how to communicate these issues to your dev team.
All participants are cordially invited to bring their website for us to test together!
Design for the mind: Neurodiversity and mental health in UX
Did you know that one in five people globally is neurodivergent? Or that half of all individuals will experience a mental health condition at some stage? Yet, many products are designed without considering the full spectrum of human experiences and abilities. In this workshop, we’re going to change that.
During our session, we'll:
Explore neurodiversity
Understand users' needs and preferences
Highlight barriers they experience
Brainstorm inclusive design solutions
Together, we'll explore how to create digital spaces that authentically include people with invisible disabilities. Ready to design experiences that embraces everyone?
Accessible typography for web & UI design
How can you best combine sublime typography with web accessibility? This fun and practical workshop gives you clear guidelines for a seemingly too fuzzy area. Learn how to set the text in your design projects beautifully accessible, making it reach and convince more people, while meeting legal requirements.
The workshop covers:
Which WCAG requirements (success criteria) matter for visual design.
How to assess if a typeface is accessible.
Which contrast requirements are crucial.
What are the best font sizes.
The ideal line length, line height and letter spacing.
Suggestions of handy tools, plugins and resources.
Short exercises, letting you apply what you just learned, right away.
For whom this workshop is:
This workshop is aimed towards visual designers, UI, app, or graphic designers. It will not be technical, so not about HTML elements or providing alt tags. It dives into typography and accessibility, not accessible web design in general. The goal of the workshop is taking the weight out of an often overwhelming and fuzzy topic, and breaking it down into practical, usable steps.
Q&A with Steve Portigal about Interviewing Users @UX Vienna Book Club
Thursday 19th September, 18:30, Ankerbrotfabrik
Steve is one of many brilliant speakers at uxcon and will be joining the book club, which gives you an amazing opportunity to ask him all you ever wanted to know about interviewing users.
P.S.: You don’t need a conference ticket to join the book club.
A11y News Recommendation
Stas shares concise tips on accessibility for UX Design and Development in his respective newsletters The UX & a11y tips, and DevA11y. If you are the type of learner who benefits from small but regular knowledge nuggets, I recommend giving his newsletter a try!