Talks and past events
Making the world accessible for your future self
As all of us age, our senses begin to decline, our reflexes grow slower, and our brains lose their acuity. But what can we as techies, as designers, as builders do to help us adapt to these challenges?
Focus First: A new front end/design approach
How to design for primacy of focus, and applying this to design systems and motion design
The Ten Commandments of Accessibility (and then some…)
The ten performance objectives of the CVAA and why they're should be the foundation of inculsive design in all digital media
Videoconferencing tools
A comparison of leading video conferencing tools and how you can evaluate them
Approach to Focus
A new approach to designing for primacy of focus, and applying this to design systems and motion design
Bringing Access to the Next Election
A talk with Sheri Byrne-Haber and a mayoral candidate on the accessibility of the voting process and poliltician websites
Unpacking the Sound of Metal
A conversation about the movie Sound of Metal with Michael Goldberg a musician who had to adapt to his own hearing loss.
The Role of Webflow in Accessibility
How Webflow's choices can have an enormous impact on the accessibility of the Web and therefore on the quality of people's lives.
Designing for your future self
A three hour workshop to envision your future self and see how inclusive design will improve the quality of your older self's life.
Building access into design tools
A conversation with Cat Noone, CEO and founder of Stark, a company that builds a suite tools and plugins for testing the accessibility of designs.
What is Ableism?
A panel discussion about the baggage that history has brought us, from the cruelty of eugenics to the barriers caused by the medical and charity models of disability.
Real-world crowdsourcing with Fable
A conversation with Sam Proulx, head of copmunity at Fable, a company that hires disabled people to test websites and applications.
Designing for your future self
A three hour workshop to envision your future self and see how inclusive design will improve the quality of your older self's life.
Everyday accessibility - Microsoft Teams
How people with disabilities use Teams and how to run your meetings accessibly
Role of Design in Discrimination
We live in a time like the Jim Crow era, where discrimination is such a part of everyday life that we can't see it. Here's how to spot the ableism that's right under our noses.
Voice without speech
A deep dive into Augmentative and Adaptive Communications (AAC) and how it allows people who can't speak to communicate with others.
Everyday accessibility - Screen readers
How blind people use screen readers as parrt of their everyday work lives
Making the most of captions
An intro to the different types of captions and why you'd want to use them in every meeting that you host.
Everyday accessibility - Service animals
How people who rely on service animals navigate their work environments and what they need.
Everyone here spoke sign language
For centuries, the people of Chilmark in Martha's Vineyard all used sign language, whether they were deaf or not. What were the dynamics that led to this inclusive utopia?
Everyday accessibility - Making the most of captions
How to use captions for your everyday meetings and training
Everyday accessibility - Excel and Powerpoint
How to create accessible spreadsheets and presentations
Prototyping with accessibility in mind
A triple header event where we covered how screen readers interpret wbe content, then how to do annoptations for accessibility, folllowed by advanced techniques for prototyping screen reader interactions
Everyday accessibility - Windows 10
A tour of the assistive technology and accessibility feature built into Windows
Zoom: the secrets behind accessible software
An interview with Alex Mooc, head of accessibility at Zoom.
Everyday accessibility - Disability etiquette
Simple activities and standards that are essential to your disabled co-workers' ability to perform their jobs
Everyday accessibility - Word and Outlook
First in a series of presentations on the accessibility features and assistive technoologies built into Microsoft's Office and Windows products
Designing for accessibility in the age of COVID
How the barriers in our virtual tools can shut people with disabilities out of the workforce.
Everyday accessibility in the Age of COVID
With remote work, we’re relying more on technology to keep us connected. Here's how easy it is to make your meetings inclusive and accessible for all.
How can I test my site for accessibility?
An exploration of the ten levels of accessibility testing, from automated testing tecniques to manual testing, user testing, and formal audits.
Designing for A11y
An introduction to accessibility for aspiring UX designers in a tech bootcamp
Accessibility: the Letter of the Law
An overview of the different laws that affect accessibility, including the ADA, the CVAA, Section 508 of the Rehabilitiation Act, and the Unruh Act in California
Intro to Accessibility
An introduction to accessibility for aspiring UX designers in a tech bootcamp
Disabilities and Digital Equality
Navigating the waters of the ADA and the country's largest untapped demographic
Accessibility in Emerging Countries
A comparison of the state of accessibility in the United States with Puerto Rico and Europe
How to measure digital accessibility and legal exposure
An approach that combines various testing methods and business intelligence (BI) tools to measure your product’s usability and quantify your legal risk.
Build Apps like you mean it
The barrers that we leave in the apps we build have an immediate impact on the quality people's lives.
Power Beyond the Screen
An introduction to accessibility for aspiring UX designers in a tech bootcamp
Deadly Roads
How the extra seconds that we spend trying to figure out an interface can lead to deadly results, especially on dangerous or crowded roads.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
A live demo of how a blind person would navigate a website to book a cruise. Ironically, we were never able to complete the task.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
An evening of talks from different aspects of accessibility: blindness, VR, and testing
The business case for accessibility
What are the business arguments for accessibility that you'd present to leadership?
Built for All
A proposal for an accessibility certification and badging system for components and products
Intro to a11y
An introduction to accessibility for aspiring UX designers in a tech bootcamp
A11y testing for everyone
An exploration of the ten levels of accessibility testing, from automated testing tecniques to manual testing, user testing, and formal audits.
GAAD 2018: Building websites for all
An introduction to accessibility for UX professionals
Bad roads and deadly UX
How the extra seconds that we spend trying to figure out an interface can lead to deadly results, especially on dangerous or crowded roads.
Intro to a11y
An introduction to accessibility for aspiring UX designers in a tech bootcamp
building website for all
An introduction to accessibility for UX professionals