Our lives are increasingly lived online. Think about it — we work, study and socialize online. We talk with our therapists and consult with doctors online. We bank, shop and pay taxes online. Digital accessibility has never been more important than it is right now. Despite this, making our work accessible can feel like an overwhelming mystery.
This talk will teach us how to greatly impact the accessibility of our work with various approaches to our design and development tasks. We will identify many common UI (User Interface) patterns, and learn how to approach them in order for assistive technologies, such as screen readers, to understand and communicate them clearly. We will highlight and reiterate how accessible design is good design and benefits everybody. All of this without looking at a single line of code.
The goal of this talk is to reframe how we think about and start our design and development work to make accessibility feel like a natural part of our workflow. We are not building software for users, but for people — and all people deserve empathy from the digital products that make up their very real lives.
Daniel Yuschick
Daniel Yuschick began his career as a designer and frontend developer in the US, but now works as a Lead Design Systems Developer in Helsinki, Finland. Throughout his 15-year career, he's advocated for greater empathy in software development and developed his passion for accessibility. Daniel is an author, accessibility advocate and a mentor at the Helsinki chapter of Codebar. Daniel is most passionate about great chocolate, beautiful tattoos and bridging the gap between design and development to create accessible and resilient design systems.
