Web Accessibility in Mind Conference 2022
2022-09-07..2022-09-08
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[Web Accessibility in Mind Conference 2022, Web Accessibility in Mind Conference 2024, Web Accessibility in Mind Conference 2025]
who it's for
accessibility specialists, ux designers, front-end developers, product managers, qa engineers, design system maintainers, procurement managers, xr designers
topics
captions baked into media; auto-generated image alt text; shift-left accessibility testing; mouse and keyboard parity; data visualization captions and semantics; accessible procurement and VPATs; accessibility in XR experiences; accessibility of digital ads; design system accessibility gating; accessibility evaluation with WAVE and DevTools
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Accessfuturism: Digital Accessibility in 2032 | Crystal Preston-Watson | 49m |
Predicts that by 2032 devices embed captions baked into media files and image alt text, auto-generated transcripts become near-perfect yet vulnerable to… | ||
| Inclusion and Accessibility in XR: Exploring experiences | Reginé Gilbert | 35m |
Argues that XR is growing but excludes many due to design and cost, citing 97.81% of people who haven’t tried VR and AR users rising from 0.44B (2019) to 1.73B… | ||
| Designing for people who use a mouse | Henny Swan | 57m |
Argues that many people with disabilities still rely on a mouse, citing James Williamson’s ALS example, and shows concrete failures: festival site links with… | ||
| How (and why) to 'shift-left' your accessibility testing | Sheri Byrne-Haber | 57m |
Argues that moving accessibility earlier cuts cost and risk using concrete moves: add disabilities to personas, recruit users with lived experience, require… | ||
| Getting to the Core of Data Visualization Accessibility | Thomas Watkins | 49m |
A clear, actionable claim: prioritize captions as immediate fix because sonification and tactile lithophanes lack scalability and standards. Demonstrations… | ||
| From Projects to Programs: Accessibility in Digital Strategy | Rob Carr | 47m |
Organizations must treat accessibility as a sustained program not a one-off project, because pandemic-era digitization (March 2020) exposes gaps when a single… | ||
| The Intended Consequence of Inaccessible Digital Ads | Mike Paciello, Jonathan Day, Joe Dolson, Gerard Cohen | 55m |
Panel argues that common ad platforms add 24 extra accessibility errors to pages and that simple fixes deliver big wins: an accessible ad server prototype… | ||
| A designer's guide to documenting accessibility & user interactions. | Stéphanie Walter | 53m |
Uses a two-file Sketch system linking component docs and page docs into Jira, with annotated mockups and a reusable Sketch component file toolkit; documents… | ||
| Shop Accessible: Concrete Strategies for Procuring Accessible/Inaccessible Solutions | Corbb O'Connor | 52m |
Six concrete tactics for buying usable tech: poll the accessibility community and employees, smoke-test with keyboard and run automated scanners (WAVE… | ||
| Accessibility Convincing. | Lainey Feingold | 54m |
27 years of structured negotiation yields concrete wins: talking ATMs and tactile keypads lead to the first U.S. web accessibility agreement (2000) with Bank… | ||
| Accessible Roots Grow A Healthy Framework. | Shell Little | 47m |
A concrete case study of baking accessibility into a design system: a product team arrives with 111 defects blocking release, a migration to the framework… | ||
| Quick Start for Evaluating and Testing Web Accessibility | Jared Smith, Jonathan Whiting | 56m |
Workshop lays out a repeatable evaluation flow: set scope and sample, use discovery tools to find issues, then inspect with DevTools to locate the failing… | ||
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