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axe-con 2023

date:2023-03-15..2023-03-16
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series:axe-con · 3 editions
editions:[axe-con 2023, axe-con 2024, axe-con 2025]
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Accessibility at Google: Lessons LearnedEve Andersson52m
Ten years of concrete choices: Google builds a hub-and-spoke model with centralized standards launched December 2013 and education in Noogler orientation, adds…
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Update on The State of AccessibilityPreety Kumar, Dylan Barrel52m
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…
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DevOps: Top Lessons Learned on Shifting Left For Accessibility and Other ExpertsGene Kim50m
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…
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Narrative Changes on DisabilityImani Barbarin51m
Argues that accessibility benefits everyone, cites COVID-driven remote tools as proof that long-requested accommodations actually work, and warns employers are…
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GitHub Accessibility: Bridging the Disability Divide through Code CollaborationEd Summers49m
Five guiding principles (participation first; disabilities arise from barriers; remove barriers; tech can include or exclude; progress beats perfection) frame…
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Whose web is it, anyway?Bruce Lawson47m
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…
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Microsoft Inclusive Design The Cognitive ModelAnna E. Cook48m
Microsoft releases a cognitive model that claims successful tasks require motivation ≥ cognitive load, backed by interviews with nearly 100 experts and people…
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Trust is the true measure of inclusion Change my mindElle Waters51m
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…
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Moving from Why to How in Video Game AccessibilitySteve Saylor53m
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…
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What’s new in axeDylan Barrell50m
Overview lists concrete changes and outcomes: a repo-aware reporting system that tracks branches and commits and compares feature branches to default branches…
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Research Through Broken Lenses The Need to ‘Shift Left’ in UX ResearchMichele A. Williams, A. Williams49m
Argues that accessibility must shift left so disabled people join generative studies, not only final usability tests, and that including them early prevents…
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Our approach to accessibility at Miro, a real-time collaboration platformPhil Strain50m
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…
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Extensive Testing and Reporting with axe DevToolsShivaji Kumar48m
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…
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Ageism in InterfacesAlex Tait49m
Defines three concrete forms of ageism (macro, mezzo, micro), gives empirical points from 58 survey responses and literature: 24.1% reported having a…
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Digital Accessibility Legal UpdateKristina Launey50m
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…
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Elections for Everyone - Accessible Voting in 2023Whitney Quesenbery49m
Progress report on accessible elections with concrete numbers and products: federal VVSG 2.0 makes every approved voting system fully accessible; ballot…
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Next Generation Accessibility Test AutomationJonathan Thickens50m
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…
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Beyond Compliance Best Practices for Designing Inclusive ProductsHannah Wagner52m
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…
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Measuring Ourselves GitHub’s Accessibility ScorecardKendall Gassner, Katie McCormick42m
GitHub builds an accessibility scorecard (rolled into Fundamentals in fall 2022 after a six‑month effort) that scores services on audit progress, static…
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Maker Space a DIY, Accessible Workflow for Tactile Graphics Used in Zero Gravity FlightSheri Wells-Jensen, Lauren Race, Marco Salsiccia47m
A usable tactile navigation system for parabolic 0G flights is developed and tested: low‑fidelity sketches on a sensational blackboard move to measured…
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Structuring Accessible FormsWAG - ASL, Rachele DiTullio50m
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…
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Redesigning for Cognitive EaseAlyssa Panetta49m
After surgery-induced cognitive impairment the presenter measures concrete problems and solutions: one in four Americans report a disability (about 26%) and…
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Accessibility Maturity ModelsJonathan Thurston51m
Maturity models give a measurable baseline across pillars like procurement, training and tools and produce a scored roadmap (levels 1–5) so organizations can…
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Getting the Most Out of Your Shift Left Regardless of Your Program MaturityMatthew Luken51m
Argues that shifting accessibility left into design catches most defects early, claiming reduce defects by 67% when designers, developers, and testers…
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The Accessibility to Burnout PipelineShell Little51m
Accessibility practitioners face concrete risks: job listings spike but senior replacements are scarce (about 47% of sampled roles), surveys find only 39% feel…
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Accessibility Beyond Code ComplianceAaron Gustafson45m
Argues accessibility skills pay beyond compliance and lists five concrete roles: design systems (build accessible components, run audits, add CI checks that…
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Essential Accessibility Annotations for a Smoother Design to Development HandoffCarie Fisher52m
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…
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The Things Nobody Tells You About Building a Successful Accessibility ProgramMike Shebanek, Mike Chovanec48m
Concrete tactics and outcomes: automation finds about 40% coverage of accessibility issues so experts must fill the rest; a single engineer builds a complete…
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Preparing Accessibility for the Future and the PresentJutta Treviranus52m
Accessibility work warns that mainstream AI is already amplifying and automating exclusion: 90% of organizations use AI hiring tools that statistically screen…
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Enhancing Accessibility with AI and MLNoé Barrell50m
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…
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The Success of the Irish Government Accessibility Monitoring SystemDónal Rice, WAG - ASL50m
Ireland runs a national monitoring program that scans hundreds of public sites weekly, combining weekly automated scans (Deque/X‑Monitor and axe-core rules)…
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God Of War, Ragnarök: Hammering Home Axe-essibilityBen Breen - SightlessKombat, WAG - ASL51m
Compares God of War Ragnarök to its predecessor with concrete examples of what changed for players without sight, lists the specific accessibility toggles used…
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Hijacking Screenreaders with CSSBen Myers50m
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…
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Scaling Accessibility An Accessibility Design Manager’s TaleAllie Thu49m
At GitHub the design system (nearly 100 components) audits would take an estimated three plus years to reach accessibility so the team installs Storybook…
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Panel: Getting Your Organization Started with AccessibilitySARAH L. FOSSHEIM, Zoe Portlock55m
Practical steps and exact wins: they launch an ambassador program by training one ambassador per discipline, funded with under £10,000 initially; build…
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WCAG 2.2 and 3.0 UpdateMelanie Phillip50m
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…
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Supporting accessibility in React: the difficulties and nicetiesDiane Koh49m
React shows concrete wins and concrete pitfalls: reusable input and card components with component reusability and prop enforcement (PropTypes) reduce…
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User Research and Personas for BARD MobileJulia Kim, Wendy Stengel52m
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…
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Making Friends - Accessibility at ScaleDonna Bungard51m
Argues that accessibility is the tactical arm of disability inclusion and recommends measurable goals (increase disability awareness training uptake, track…
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Please Don’t Let Accessibility Become the Next DEI in TechAlexis Lucio51m
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…
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Mega Accessible – Mega MenusStephanie Andrecovich47m
Walks through concrete implementations: uses WAI-ARIA APG patterns, implements aria-expanded, aria-controls (JAWS note) and aria-current, and compares three…
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Operationalizing Inclusive DesignSaara Kamppari-Miller49m
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…
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Accessibility Beyond Compliance - Using Gamification as a MotivatorNicole Bergstrom, Kerin Griffin50m
Hilton claims gamification moves teams beyond WCAG checklists into ownership by embedding short, contextual games into agile ceremonies; they run a one-hour…
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Working from Within: Having a Disability and Working in Digital AccessibilitySteve Lowe51m
Panelists who are blind, who stutter, and who use prosthetic hands describe concrete wins: converting a community college to regular screen‑reader testing that…
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Uncapping Accessibility in SodaWAG - ASL, Emilio Jeldrez48m
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…
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Making Pinterest More Inclusive Through Design SystemsCintia Romero49m
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…
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Building a Dynamic Accessibility Program in a Regulatory EnvironmentJennifer Cowan33m
Scotiabank builds an Accessibility Centre of Excellence that uses Accessible Canada Act and AODA requirements as guardrails to create scalable processes…
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How To Truly Connect with All of Your Audience Without Leaving Anyone BehindDenis Boudreau53m
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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