axe-con 2023
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility at Google: Lessons Learned | Eve Andersson | 52m |
Ten years of concrete choices: Google builds a hub-and-spoke model with centralized standards launched December 2013 and education in Noogler orientation, adds… | ||
| Update on The State of Accessibility | Preety Kumar, Dylan Barrel | 52m |
Deque announces a limited beta of the axe Developer Hub and says axe tools power thousands of scans: about 60 million pages analyzed, 5.5 million Analyze… | ||
| DevOps: Top Lessons Learned on Shifting Left For Accessibility and Other Experts | Gene Kim | 50m |
Research of 36,000 organizations over six years shows high performers deploy multiple times per day, take one hour or less from commit to production, are seven… | ||
| Narrative Changes on Disability | Imani Barbarin | 51m |
Argues that accessibility benefits everyone, cites COVID-driven remote tools as proof that long-requested accommodations actually work, and warns employers are… | ||
| GitHub Accessibility: Bridging the Disability Divide through Code Collaboration | Ed Summers | 49m |
Five guiding principles (participation first; disabilities arise from barriers; remove barriers; tech can include or exclude; progress beats perfection) frame… | ||
| Whose web is it, anyway? | Bruce Lawson | 47m |
Median desktop pages hit 2.3 megabytes median page (up 397% in a decade) while median mobile pages are ~2 MB, and a gigabyte costs 16.16% of monthly income… | ||
| Microsoft Inclusive Design The Cognitive Model | Anna E. Cook | 48m |
Microsoft releases a cognitive model that claims successful tasks require motivation ≥ cognitive load, backed by interviews with nearly 100 experts and people… | ||
| Trust is the true measure of inclusion Change my mind | Elle Waters | 51m |
Argues that trust is the best metric of inclusion and gives ten concrete practices to build it: adopt an internal accessibility policy targeting WCAG 2.1 A/AA… | ||
| Moving from Why to How in Video Game Accessibility | Steve Saylor | 53m |
Consultant work on The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima and Dead Cells shows accessibility succeeds when it is baked into design not bolted on: Ghost of… | ||
| What’s new in axe | Dylan Barrell | 50m |
Overview lists concrete changes and outcomes: a repo-aware reporting system that tracks branches and commits and compares feature branches to default branches… | ||
| Research Through Broken Lenses The Need to ‘Shift Left’ in UX Research | Michele A. Williams, A. Williams | 49m |
Argues that accessibility must shift left so disabled people join generative studies, not only final usability tests, and that including them early prevents… | ||
| Our approach to accessibility at Miro, a real-time collaboration platform | Phil Strain | 50m |
Miro runs a third‑party WCAG 2.1 audit that finds over 300 issues and remediates fixed over 95%, publishing a VPAT-style accessibility conformance report at… | ||
| Extensive Testing and Reporting with axe DevTools | Shivaji Kumar | 48m |
Uses the axe DevTools browser extension to run Axe Core and three intelligent guided tests that use computer vision guided tests to find issues automatically… | ||
| Ageism in Interfaces | Alex Tait | 49m |
Defines three concrete forms of ageism (macro, mezzo, micro), gives empirical points from 58 survey responses and literature: 24.1% reported having a… | ||
| Digital Accessibility Legal Update | Kristina Launey | 50m |
Updates on case law, enforcement and numbers: DOJ issues guidance in 2022 and kicks off DOJ rulemaking timeline April–June 2023 for Title II, courts split on… | ||
| Elections for Everyone - Accessible Voting in 2023 | Whitney Quesenbery | 49m |
Progress report on accessible elections with concrete numbers and products: federal VVSG 2.0 makes every approved voting system fully accessible; ballot… | ||
| Next Generation Accessibility Test Automation | Jonathan Thickens | 50m |
A new low‑code Watcher integration pushes axe-core results to a cloud report called axe Developer Hub, using a few lines in CI (demoed with Cypress) to… | ||
| Beyond Compliance Best Practices for Designing Inclusive Products | Hannah Wagner | 52m |
Claims that ADA is only the baseline and that inclusive design requires five concrete practices: focus on exceptional cases, design with and not for, slow… | ||
| Measuring Ourselves GitHub’s Accessibility Scorecard | Kendall Gassner, Katie McCormick | 42m |
GitHub builds an accessibility scorecard (rolled into Fundamentals in fall 2022 after a six‑month effort) that scores services on audit progress, static… | ||
| Maker Space a DIY, Accessible Workflow for Tactile Graphics Used in Zero Gravity Flight | Sheri Wells-Jensen, Lauren Race, Marco Salsiccia | 47m |
A usable tactile navigation system for parabolic 0G flights is developed and tested: low‑fidelity sketches on a sensational blackboard move to measured… | ||
| Structuring Accessible Forms | WAG - ASL, Rachele DiTullio | 50m |
Shows a working demo form built with native HTML plus a bit of JavaScript that uses aria-describedby for help text, aria-invalid to flag errors, and either the… | ||
| Redesigning for Cognitive Ease | Alyssa Panetta | 49m |
After surgery-induced cognitive impairment the presenter measures concrete problems and solutions: one in four Americans report a disability (about 26%) and… | ||
| Accessibility Maturity Models | Jonathan Thurston | 51m |
Maturity models give a measurable baseline across pillars like procurement, training and tools and produce a scored roadmap (levels 1–5) so organizations can… | ||
| Getting the Most Out of Your Shift Left Regardless of Your Program Maturity | Matthew Luken | 51m |
Argues that shifting accessibility left into design catches most defects early, claiming reduce defects by 67% when designers, developers, and testers… | ||
| The Accessibility to Burnout Pipeline | Shell Little | 51m |
Accessibility practitioners face concrete risks: job listings spike but senior replacements are scarce (about 47% of sampled roles), surveys find only 39% feel… | ||
| Accessibility Beyond Code Compliance | Aaron Gustafson | 45m |
Argues accessibility skills pay beyond compliance and lists five concrete roles: design systems (build accessible components, run audits, add CI checks that… | ||
| Essential Accessibility Annotations for a Smoother Design to Development Handoff | Carie Fisher | 52m |
Automated scans flag 96.8% of the top million sites for WCAG failures, yet design-phase fixes can cover up to 67% of success criteria; addressing one of the… | ||
| The Things Nobody Tells You About Building a Successful Accessibility Program | Mike Shebanek, Mike Chovanec | 48m |
Concrete tactics and outcomes: automation finds about 40% coverage of accessibility issues so experts must fill the rest; a single engineer builds a complete… | ||
| Preparing Accessibility for the Future and the Present | Jutta Treviranus | 52m |
Accessibility work warns that mainstream AI is already amplifying and automating exclusion: 90% of organizations use AI hiring tools that statistically screen… | ||
| Enhancing Accessibility with AI and ML | Noé Barrell | 50m |
Deque uses computer vision and OCR plus human-verified labels to infer UI semantics and surface mismatches between visual roles and markup, claiming it boosts… | ||
| The Success of the Irish Government Accessibility Monitoring System | Dónal Rice, WAG - ASL | 50m |
Ireland runs a national monitoring program that scans hundreds of public sites weekly, combining weekly automated scans (Deque/X‑Monitor and axe-core rules)… | ||
| God Of War, Ragnarök: Hammering Home Axe-essibility | Ben Breen - SightlessKombat, WAG - ASL | 51m |
Compares God of War Ragnarök to its predecessor with concrete examples of what changed for players without sight, lists the specific accessibility toggles used… | ||
| Hijacking Screenreaders with CSS | Ben Myers | 50m |
CSS changes what assistive tech sees: browsers build and curate an accessibility tree and can display:none hides from AT, ::before gets announced as real… | ||
| Scaling Accessibility An Accessibility Design Manager’s Tale | Allie Thu | 49m |
At GitHub the design system (nearly 100 components) audits would take an estimated three plus years to reach accessibility so the team installs Storybook… | ||
| Panel: Getting Your Organization Started with Accessibility | SARAH L. FOSSHEIM, Zoe Portlock | 55m |
Practical steps and exact wins: they launch an ambassador program by training one ambassador per discipline, funded with under £10,000 initially; build… | ||
| WCAG 2.2 and 3.0 Update | Melanie Phillip | 50m |
WCAG 2.2 is essentially finalized this spring and adds nine new success criteria (2 at A, 5 at AA, 2 at AAA), moves 2.4.7 down to A and removes 4.1.1 parsing… | ||
| Supporting accessibility in React: the difficulties and niceties | Diane Koh | 49m |
React shows concrete wins and concrete pitfalls: reusable input and card components with component reusability and prop enforcement (PropTypes) reduce… | ||
| User Research and Personas for BARD Mobile | Julia Kim, Wendy Stengel | 52m |
Library of Congress research runs 26 interviews across three rounds over 2.5 years and finds only 18% adoption of BARD among eligible patrons; teams synthesize… | ||
| Making Friends - Accessibility at Scale | Donna Bungard | 51m |
Argues that accessibility is the tactical arm of disability inclusion and recommends measurable goals (increase disability awareness training uptake, track… | ||
| Please Don’t Let Accessibility Become the Next DEI in Tech | Alexis Lucio | 51m |
Argues that web accessibility is at risk of becoming tokenized and defunded like corporate DEI, cites layoffs and the rush-purchase of overlays are not a… | ||
| Mega Accessible – Mega Menus | Stephanie Andrecovich | 47m |
Walks through concrete implementations: uses WAI-ARIA APG patterns, implements aria-expanded, aria-controls (JAWS note) and aria-current, and compares three… | ||
| Operationalizing Inclusive Design | Saara Kamppari-Miller | 49m |
Intel reports a 21% adoption score and uses a practical playbook of eight plays to operationalize inclusive design: become a change agent, map your agency… | ||
| Accessibility Beyond Compliance - Using Gamification as a Motivator | Nicole Bergstrom, Kerin Griffin | 50m |
Hilton claims gamification moves teams beyond WCAG checklists into ownership by embedding short, contextual games into agile ceremonies; they run a one-hour… | ||
| Working from Within: Having a Disability and Working in Digital Accessibility | Steve Lowe | 51m |
Panelists who are blind, who stutter, and who use prosthetic hands describe concrete wins: converting a community college to regular screen‑reader testing that… | ||
| Uncapping Accessibility in Soda | WAG - ASL, Emilio Jeldrez | 48m |
A 40,000-player survey and follow-up user tests find 38% of players self-identify with a disability and the top barriers are small/low-contrast text, imprecise… | ||
| Making Pinterest More Inclusive Through Design Systems | Cintia Romero | 49m |
A design system called Gestalt delivers coded, cross‑platform components and docs that embed accessibility rules so teams can ship usable UI; it includes a… | ||
| Building a Dynamic Accessibility Program in a Regulatory Environment | Jennifer Cowan | 33m |
Scotiabank builds an Accessibility Centre of Excellence that uses Accessible Canada Act and AODA requirements as guardrails to create scalable processes… | ||
| How To Truly Connect with All of Your Audience Without Leaving Anyone Behind | Denis Boudreau | 53m |
Shares an accessible PDF for followalong, an audience loss calculator that turns inputs (8,000–10,000 attendees, 3–5% conversion, $1,000 average) into dollar… | ||
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