axe-con 2025
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| is happening now! (25-27 Feb) #digitalaccessibility #inclusivedesign | 02m | |
Axe‑Con runs 25–27 Feb 2025 as a virtual conference hosted by Deque, offering free registration and multi‑track, ~45‑minute sessions that are recorded and… | ||
| Combating Ableism and Driving Positive Change | Alice Wong | 54m |
Argues that accessibility is an act of love, defines ableism with T.L. Lewis’s working definition and links it to techno-ableism, urges adding alt text and… | ||
| A solution for the visual and source order disconnect | Rachel Andrew | 43m |
A new CSS property reading-flow lets a flex or grid container switch tab order from source order to the visual layout with values like grid-rows or… | ||
| No, Seriously, F*ck Engagement: Building a More Human Web | David Dylan Thomas | 50m |
Argues that web personalization and engagement metrics reward content near the line of prohibition and literally cost lives, citing the 2017–18 Rohingya… | ||
| Level Up Your Career: How to Become an Accessibility Unicorn | November Champion | 48m |
Concrete first steps: learn WCAG and get hands‑on with NVDA and VoiceOver (use WebAIM practice pages and videos), pick up basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript/ARIA for… | ||
| A Conversation | Senator Duckworth, Former Representative Coelho | 22m |
Updates on concrete policy moves: a proposed Website Accessibility Act and pushes to reauthorize ASAP funding ends 2026 for transit accessibility; enforcement… | ||
| The European Accessibility Act (EAA): Why it's here and how you can prepare for it | Inmaculada Placencia Porrero, Alejandro Moledo | 50m |
The European Accessibility Act makes specific products and services legally required to meet accessibility rules by June 2025 deadline, covering computers and… | ||
| Design For Everyone | Laura Kalbag | 51m |
A Penpot plugin implements an accessible design checklist that condenses WCAG and proven fixes: contrast checks for text, icons and inputs; alt text rules for… | ||
| Designing for neurodiversity | Craig Abbott | 50m |
Argues that WCAG AA leaves neurodivergent people in the margins, cites KOGA cognitive accessibility as the practical bridge, and notes about 15% prevalence and… | ||
| From Parts to Whole – Beyond Design System | Sayali Bharambe | 47m |
Design systems alone do not guarantee accessible products; components can be technically correct but fail in the user journey, as with Kavya, a 74‑year‑old… | ||
| Unboxing Accessibility: The Dangers of a Restricted View | Michele A. Williams | 49m |
Argues that WCAG is floor not ceiling, not an end point, and shows concrete gaps when teams treat accessibility as a boxed checklist: emerging tech and… | ||
| How design leadership transformed accessibility | Jency Francis, Kristin Harvey | 48m |
Cisco WebEx Control Hub makes accessibility a baseline by redesigning 51 components into an accessible web component library, running fast user feedback… | ||
| SEQ Usability Testing | Rebecca Topps, Alison Williams | 50m |
Atlassian integrates accessibility into SEQ usability testing by recruiting an 50 person panel, running 549 tasks across Jira and Confluence, and measuring… | ||
| The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape | Lainey Feingold | 47m |
Overview of current U.S. digital accessibility law: federal statutes (ADA, Section 504, Section 508, CVAA, Section 1557) rely on WCAG 2.1 AA as technical… | ||
| Considering the ‘Human’ in Human Centered Design | Maya Sellon | 48m |
Claims that society is heading into a “tele-everything” future where access gaps matter: 8.5 million UK adults lack basic digital skills, Good Things… | ||
| Influencing Without Authority: A Pep Talk for Accessibility Advocates | Kai Wong | 50m |
The talk shows that change happens without titles by combining concrete tools, measurable findings, and repeatable tactics: 95% of top 1M homepages have… | ||
| It’s Alive! Facing The Monsters Of Accessible Live Regions | Daniel Yuschick | 50m |
Live regions are the practical bridge between visual toasts and screen readers: demos on a Grimm and Grace e‑commerce page use VoiceOver on Mac and CodePen to… | ||
| Building A11y Digital Experiences for Neurodivergent Users | Piper Hutson | 51m |
Covers neuroscience-backed design moves: reduced motion increases retention (noted in case studies for autistic users), use of progressive disclosure to cut… | ||
| How the power of storytelling can drive accessibility forward | Jim Lebrecht | 48m |
Crip Camp origin is traced to rediscovered 11 half-hour reels from People's Video Theater, leading to Higher Ground co-production and an Oscar nomination… | ||
| The Must-Attend Event for Designers & Developers | Angela Piccolo | 13m |
Free virtual conference Feb 25–27 with sessions roughly 9am–3pm ET and recordings available afterward, so missed talks are watchable on demand. Registration… | ||
| But…Why? | Melanie Sumner | 53m |
Integration cards with a plus-icon “Add” link all announce as just “add” when navigated by VoiceOver’s rotor, making links indistinguishable; fix by… | ||
| Inclusive Design Patterns For 2025 | Vitaly Friedman | 49m |
Accessible design means specific rules not slogans: the European Accessibility Act and real users push testable patterns — 300 million people with color… | ||
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