Web Accessibility in Mind Conference 2024
2024-08-27..2024-08-28
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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 engineers, front-end developers, ux designers, accessibility program managers, product managers, qa engineers, instructional designers
topics
design systems for accessibility; semantic-first ARIA-as-fallback; Sass contrast functions; Storybook component documentation; Radix and Shadcn primitives; accessible table markup and patterns; closed captions and transcripts workflow; WCAG 2.1 AA regulatory compliance; reduced-motion and cognitive accessibility; procurement, monitoring and remediation systems
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Improving Accessibility Through Design Systems | Homer Gaines | 59m |
Argues for semantic-first, ARIA-as-fallback coding, cites WebAIM findings (106,145 errors on one homepage; ARIA-using pages show ~34% more errors), and… | ||
| The internet is unusable - The disabled view | Nic Steenhout | 57m |
The web is effectively unusable for many disabled people because common patterns and settings block real tasks: audits find 57 accessibility defects per… | ||
| Talkin' Tables | Adrian Roselli | 58m |
Covers concrete rules and failures: use caption element as the table name, put row headers in the first column and column headers in the first row, and avoid… | ||
| Accessibility for the Deaf / Hard of Hearing and Progress Over Perfection | Meryl Evans | 59m |
Examples show concrete fixes: change a form that requires a phone number to offer a text‑only option and force-choice between at least two contact methods… | ||
| New Digital Accessibility Regs: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. | Judith Risch | 59m |
Federal regs require web content and mobile apps to meet WCAG 2.1 AA style success criteria, with a safe‑harbor defense for technical errors; HHS 504 adds… | ||
| Accessible UX: Design for the rest of us | Devon Persing | 01h 00m |
Accessible UX focuses on concrete fixes: about 15–20% estimated neurodivergent and 51% of U.S. adults (2018) report at least one chronic condition, so design… | ||
| Grassroots Strategies for Building Buy-In for Digital Access | Korey Singleton | 56m |
George Mason frames accessibility as a decade‑long program not a one‑off fix and builds concrete systems: a university working group, a centralized captioning… | ||
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