axe-con 2024
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Helping Debunk Disability Stigma with Squirmy and Grubs | Shane Burcaw, Hannah Burcaw | 51m |
A couple turns their relationship into an advocacy platform, documenting daily ableism and inaccessibility so specific institutions act: a viral airport… | ||
| Human-Centered AI and Accessibility | Dylan Barrell, Preety Kumar | 50m |
Claims that generic LLMs solve accessibility fail because models train on largely inaccessible web code; Deque reports early scanners produced 200% of issues… | ||
| Advocating for Change | Jonah Berger | 49m |
Shows five hidden barriers to change (Reactance, Endowment, Distance, Uncertainty, Corroboration) and gives concrete tactics: a cited finding that people stick… | ||
| The Value of Accessibility Certifications | Samantha Evans, Paul Bohman | 50m |
Industry-run IAAP certifications claim to standardize measurable job tasks: they launch from CPAC core competency (35 initial test takers to ~4,700… | ||
| What it Takes to Make Your Digital Accessibility Program Vision a Reality | Mali Fernando, Preety Kumar | 39m |
HSBC frames a clear goal — “world’s most digitally accessible bank” — and reports concrete wins: a global footprint of 225,000 employees serving 40 million… | ||
| Empowering People with Disabilities Using GitHub Copilot | Carrie Fisher | 49m |
GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code generate contextual code completions, inline explanations and runnable snippets while supporting screen… | ||
| The Future of axe Tools | Dylan Barrell | 49m |
Axe tooling now reports 1 billion npm downloads, 16 million weekly downloads, 8.7 million GitHub projects and 209 contributors, and ships eight releases in the… | ||
| Integrate Accessibility Snapshot Testing into the Mobile Build Process | David Brunow | 48m |
Hilton shows a concrete setup: snapshot tests run per component and screen for iOS and Android using PointFree, Paparazzi, accessible-snapshot, capturing… | ||
| AI Systems for Accessibility | Dylan Sheffer | 47m |
Deque shows production AI systems that combine a computer vision model that identifies UI elements from pixels with large language models that generate… | ||
| Get It Right the 1st Time: Stop 80%+ of A11Y Bugs During Development | Glenda Sims, Sachin Gupta | 48m |
Claim: shift accessibility left to stop the bulk of bugs during dev by combining axe-core automation, an Axe DevTools extension, a VS Code/IntelliJ linter and… | ||
| Accessible Component Libraries: The Foundation of Accessibility at Scale | Rachael Yomtoob | 50m |
Deque builds Cauldron React, an open source component library that defaults ARIA behavior (auto-generating IDs, defaulting to aria-describedby) and ships unit… | ||
| Easy Digital Accessibility: What’s Your +1 | Kathryn Weber-Hottleman | 50m |
Argues for a concrete practice: add one small accessibility improvement to each iteration so work scales and stops being an end‑of‑project crisis. Uses agile… | ||
| Pixel perfect is dead, long live to adaptive and accessible iOS apps | Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats | 47m |
Asserts that pixel‑perfect layouts fail on modern iOS and shows concrete fixes: migrate from hardcoded 320-by-480 points to Auto Layout/constraints and size… | ||
| Cypress Component Testing for Accessibility: Taking Axe to the Root | Miloš Jovanović | 43m |
Shows how to add Cypress component testing plus Axe Core via the cypress-axe plugin or send results to Axe watcher and the Developer Hub; setup uses npm and… | ||
| The Next Generation of Automated Accessibility Testing for Mobile Apps | Megan Pletzer | 49m |
If an app runs on iOS or Android axe DevTools Mobile scans it without source changes, using black box testing on Android (floating scan button) and an Xcode… | ||
| How Do You Make Accessibility Testing as Efficient as Possible | Harris Schneiderman | 49m |
Designs scan in Figma with axe for Designers and return 24 issues immediately; VS Code linting flags missing alt text and enforces custom-component mappings… | ||
| The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape | Lainey Feingold | 48m |
Overview of concrete legal trends: federal agencies issue guidance and DOJ secures findings against states (Oklahoma, Texas) while agencies and courts push… | ||
| What WCAG 2.2 Means for Native Mobile Accessibility | Rachael Yomtoob | 46m |
WCAG 2.2 adds 9 new success criteria and the session translates them to native apps with concrete guidance: focus must remain visible (2.4.11/12) and meet size… | ||
| The impact of AI on people with disabilities | Matthew Johnston | 49m |
Demonstrates concrete wins and limits: live captions and phone translation reach 80–85% accuracy now and enable near‑real‑time access, but human reviewers… | ||
| AI as an A11y Ally | Kelly Goto, Colin Wong | 50m |
Claims that AI can make mainstream tech accessible are backed by hands‑on work: recruited people with diabetes and vision loss, used Dovetail to code… | ||
| From Exclusion to Inclusion Advancing Accessible Gaming Together | Morgan Baker, M.Ed. | 49m |
Argues that accessibility must be built with disabled players, not after the fact, citing 30% of players disabled and surveys showing 66% face barriers and “1… | ||
| Inaccessible Marketing Emails Suck! | Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli | 48m |
Argues that many marketing emails are actively harmful by using image-only emails that strip text, omitting alt text and semantic HTML so screen readers get… | ||
| Demystifying the APCA Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm | Christopher Costa, James Sullivan | 49m |
APCA replaces contrast ratios with a lightness contrast (LC) scale running -108 to 106 and five actionable thresholds (LC 90, 75, 60, 45, 30) that tie specific… | ||
| Multisensory Design: Accessibility as a Creative Practice for Designers | Lauren Race | 52m |
NYU’s multisensory work builds concrete tools: a library of 50 downloadable SVG tactile schematics optimized after 11 iterations for microcapsule paper and… | ||
| Capturing Disabled Voices: How we are building our own research panel | Zoe Portlock | 50m |
Company builds an internal accessibility research panel of 12 confirmed panel members recruited via accessibility@hl.co.uk and the public accessibility… | ||
| Neuroinclusive Content Design | Laurie Cameron-Back | 49m |
Practical checklist for neuroinclusive content: reduce complexity with short sentences, headings and one thought per paragraph (aim reading age 9–15), prefer… | ||
| The Folly of Chasing Demographics (*Content Warning) | Heydon Pickering | 48m |
Argues that chasing demographics fails and instead teams should design for the tool — ensure inputs and outputs work with screen readers, not guess users’… | ||
| Designing Accessible Dashboards | Emily Kund | 49m |
Six concrete steps — know your audience, list exclusions, solve for one and extend to many, use consistent conventions, provide choice, prioritize content —… | ||
| Does your design conform with WCAG accessibility guidelines — or does it comply | Cintia Romero | 51m |
Argues that meeting WCAG is necessary but not sufficient and shows a working framework — Understand, Engage, Iterate, Scale — used to drive Pinterest’s… | ||
| Assembling a network of accessibility advocacy through UX design | Ray Dahl | 50m |
A UX team builds an accessibility program by turning a design system into enforceable requirements, starting with color and type then adding ARIA labels… | ||
| “That’s great, but how do I convince my boss ” Overcoming Bias to Advocate for Change | David Dylan Thomas | 49m |
Organizations make about 95% of decisions below conscious awareness and incentives drive behavior not values for example Wells Fargo agents created 2 million… | ||
| Digital Accessibility and Knowing When to Flex | Laila Coulton | 49m |
Argues for a pragmatic, evidence-driven accessibility program that pairs top-down and bottom-up changes: add accessibility to procurement contracts, tie work… | ||
| Disability Inclusive Marketing What’s the Playbook | Elodie Fichet | 50m |
Provides a concrete playbook: a glossary, brand positioning, non‑negotiable core values and production checklists that force nothing about us without us… | ||
| Ignite change; 5 sure-fire strategies to locate a C Suite digital a11y champion | Patrick Sturdivant | 50m |
Clear plan with concrete tactics: five strategies that actually move governance — five strategies are DEI/ERGs to reach HR, town halls to reach broad… | ||
| How to get stakeholder buy in for your product’s accessibility | Noorul Ameen | 40m |
Mitratech makes its Tracker hiring product accessible by training 100+ developers QA and PMs, embedding a bottoms up flow that starts with designers, and… | ||
| Measuring and Benchmarking Accessibility | Niki Ramesh | 49m |
Uses CBC production data and concrete metrics: content vs container, 11% guests with disability (Oct–Dec 2023), recurring usability tests every three months… | ||
| Turning an oil tanker in a storm | Stuart Trevithick | 52m |
Delivered accessibility across 34 global locations supporting a $700bn+ business by auditing 70+ sites, running Deque's axe monitor scans and embedding Deque… | ||
| Driving Accessibility Transformation Through Policy | Paul Gallagher | 48m |
P&G drives change with a companywide digital accessibility policy covering ~1,500 sites and WCAG compliance, enforced via procurement clauses, automated… | ||
| Rising Tides Disability Inclusion in the DEI Landscape | Kathy Martinez | 49m |
Disability inclusion ties to measurable strategy not goodwill: a 7% federal utilization goal and laws exist, but real progress comes from hire people with… | ||
| Don’t let your vision be a dream | David Tisserand | 51m |
Eight concrete lessons on building a corporate accessibility program: start with the subtitle system in Assassin’s Creed Origins as a low‑cost early win, push… | ||
| How to Outgrow your Accessibility Partner | Chas Steinmetz | 49m |
Practical roadmap to become independent from external accessibility vendors: start by deploying a simple browser extension for wide testing, add command‑line… | ||
| How to Build an Accessibility Program and Culture | Gurpreet Kaur, Mike Shebanek, Greg Williams | 50m |
Three accessibility programs grow from measurable wins not slogans: teams pair an engineer for six months to ship an accessible rewrite (Yahoo Mail), build… | ||
| Navigating the A11Y Iceberg: Approaches for Organizational Accessibility Excellence | Kelsey Hall | 48m |
Argues that reactive bug‑fixing causes fatigue and that starting at the Accessibility Iceberg’s base — interviewing teams to surface mental models — reveals… | ||
| Building Your Program Through Metrics and Storytelling | Matthew Luken | 48m |
Explains how to use data you already have to drive decisions: break dashboards into automated guided manual columns, run quick samples to estimate site… | ||
| The Power of User Research to Increase Fitness Accessibility | Andrea Sutyak | 49m |
Peloton builds the Row with a realtime sensor-based Form Assist that flags rounding, weak leg drive, and rushing the catch, and integrates Android Talkback so… | ||
| What is “equivalent” text alternatives for artistic and cultural visual content | Liz Bottner | 50m |
Library of Congress runs a 2024 research program testing image description workflows with six deep-interview participants across 17–18 images and assistive… | ||
| Digital Wildfire – Burnout and Bias | Soren Hamby | 52m |
Accessibility work faces measurable bias and burnout: a Harvard implicit‑association analysis finds 37.8% with high explicit and implicit preference for… | ||
| Migrating Signet’s sites to Angular – an Accessibility Journey | Amanda Hennel | 38m |
Signet migrates nine e-commerce sites to Angular, rewrites 39 design-system components and logs 783 JIRA stories with accessibility ACs, uses the aXe browser… | ||
| Future of accessibility guidelines | Glenda Sims, Wilco Fiers | 34m |
Explains WCAG 3 progress: 211 draft outcomes being sorted into emergent categories and tested for quantitative objectives plus qualitative assertions… | ||
| Establishing a Scalable A11y Education Ecosystem | Alexis Lucio, Catharine McNally, Lindsey Wild | 49m |
GitHub builds an in-house accessibility education ecosystem: a live, custom Design Bootcamp (Figma exercises, prerecorded lectures replacing LinkedIn Learning… | ||
| Text-To-Image Accessibility | Mary Ann (MJ) Jawili | 48m |
Adobe Firefly’s current alt text like “variation 1 of 4” fails blind and low vision users because it doesn’t say which image matches which part of a prompt… | ||
| Digital Accessibility and Knowing When to Flex | Laila Coulton | 45m |
Built digital accessibility programs at Coles and Xero, embedding change with test and learn cycles, human-centered design/double diamond and lean canvas, and… | ||
| Improving Accessibility through Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) | Sheri Byrne-Haber | 49m |
Large language models produce image descriptions, real‑time captions, translations, plain‑language rewrites and code suggestions, but require human review… | ||
| Building an Enterprise-Level Accessibility Skills Program for Development Teams | Shivaji Kumar | 46m |
An enterprise competency‑based program uses Deque modules plus live followups, weekly office hours and code consultation to move accessibility left into design… | ||
| Disability Inclusion Beyond Accessibility Standards | Giselle Mota | 51m |
Shows concrete fixes and measurable pivots: a phone maker replaces Shirley-card calibration and ships a real-tone filter that materially improves skin-tone… | ||
| A11y in Cybersecurity Panel | Justin Merhoff | 49m |
Most enterprise security tools, training and GRC platforms lack usable access for screen readers, forcing people to share passwords or call helpers and… | ||
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