Accessibility, People and Digital Experiences: What exactly is the playbook involved?

As developers and stakeholders involved in building digital products. It is important that we consider accessibility while building these products. Accessibility is beyond physical products. Accessibility is considered in mobile applications, web applications as well as spatial computing.

This talk is focused on the Importance of Accessibility, what it entails, Assistive Technologies, WCAG, Accessibility practicability - Semantics, Styling, Functionality, WAI-ARIA and career opportunities in accessibility.

Feel free to drop your comments and questions. Thank you.

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1. Accessibility, People and Digital Experiences: What exactly is the playbook? Arafat Abdussalam Software Engineer (Web) @Arafat_ssalam
2. Hot dog, oh no, hot dog Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggety dog Now we got ears, it's time for cheers Hot dog, hot dog, the problem is solved Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggety dog - Mickey Mouse ClubHouse
3. The Podium Experiment
4. Accessibility, People and Digital Experiences: What exactly is the playbook?
5. Session Details • What is Accessibility? • Importance of Accessibility • Assistive Technologies • Building Accessible products: WCAG Principles, Semantics, Styling, Functionality and WAI-ARIA • Diagnosing Accessibility Issues: Accessibility Testing • Career Opportunities in Accessibility
6. What is Accessibility? [A11y]
7. Accessibility simply means enabling everyone and anyone to be able to use a product or software without experiencing any difficulties, constraints or inconveniences. It is all about inclusion. It aids the usability of a product.
8. Importance of Accessibility
9. An estimated 16% Of the global population has a significant impairment. This is about 1.3billion people in 2024. - World Health Organization [WHO]
11. Impairment Types Visual Cognitive Speech Mobility Auditory Situational
12. Assistive Technologies
13. Assistive technologies are simply devices or tools that enable individuals with impairments to be able to interact with a product or software in an alternative method. They provide alternative contents to different components of a software.
14. Assistive Technologies Screen readers Screen magnifiers Special keyboards Special Input devices Text-to-speech software Text-to-speech software Voice recognition software
15. Building Accessible Products: WCAG Principles, Semantics, Styling, Functionality and WAI-ARIA
16. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines [WCAG]
17. WCAG Principles Perceivable Operable Alternative information Can be operated with to contents assistive technologies Understandable Robust Simple contents, not difficult to Includes the varying needs Interact with of different individuals
18. Semantics and Attributes
22. Styling
24. Web Accessibility Initiative-Web Accessible Rich Information Applications [WAI-ARIA]
25. ARIA is a set of attributes that provide additional accessibility information through a web application
27. Diagnosing Accessibility Issues: Accessibility Testing and Accessibility Audit
28. Just like a medical doctor runs diagnosis on health conditions before proceeding with treatments, an accessibility expert runs diagnosis to identify accessibility issues before attempting to solve them. Accessibility Testing is simply accessibility diagnosis.
29. Tools for Accessibility Testing Axe Sa11y WAVE Pa11y Google lighthouse Accessibility checkers
31. Career Opportunities in Accessibility
32. User Experience Designer Application Developers Accessibility Engineers Accessibility Documentation Writers
33. WCAG WAI-ARIA WCAG-EM For Further Readings:
34. Mail LinkedIn Twitter You can reach me via:
35. Cheers! Thank you for listening. Questions rolling out?