Web Accessibility in Mind Conference 2025
2025-09-16..2025-09-17
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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, ux researchers, product designers, content designers, qa engineers, engineering managers, technical writers
topics
ARIA misuse versus native semantics; automated accessibility testing tools; assistive technology research methods; Apple Voice Control interactions; Figma annotation templates for accessibility; authoring accessible documents and slides; accessibility program metrics and ROI; AI-generated alt text with human review; keyboard and focus management; WCAG failure prevalence and audits; accessibility workforce burnout and mitigation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Tangled Web of ARIA | Mark Steadman | 58m |
Claim: ARIA is widely misused as a replacement for HTML rather than a supplement, producing div soup and brittle components; a simple product card example… | ||
| Practicing Accessibility Research with Confidence | Kavana Ramesh | 01h 01m |
Researcher reports running 500+ sessions with assistive tech users and demonstrates an Apple Voice Control demo that shows three click methods (name, numbered… | ||
| Actually Shifting Left: Technical Accessibility for Designers | Sam Hobson | 59m |
Argues designers should learn a limited set of technical accessibility skills — using tightly templated annotations for heading levels, text alternatives… | ||
| Never Delegate Understanding: Foundations of Digital Accessibility | Sarah Horton | 57m |
Argues that accessibility fails when teams rely on automated tests or overlays instead of learning the problem space, citing the WebAIM Million that finds… | ||
| Win with Metrics: How to Track and Show the Value of Your Program | Jaunita Flessas | 58m |
Shows concrete metrics and methods: use Microsoft Clarity, Hotjar and Google Analytics for session and keyboard-click data; log average issues per component… | ||
| Creating Accessible Documents and Slides | Terrill Thompson, Gaby de Jongh, Alaina Foust | 01h 00m |
Compares 10 concrete authoring techniques across Word/PowerPoint, Google Docs/Slides, and Canva and reports what actually works: Word/PowerPoint mostly… | ||
| Understanding Burnout in Accessibility Work | Annie Ross | 01h 00m |
Qualitative interviews and a 28‑person survey find accessibility specialists score significantly higher on exhaustion and cynicism yet report higher… | ||
| AI and alt text | Ted Drake, Marco Salsiccia | 01h 00m |
Company sites auto-generate alt text in the CMS pipeline (Intuit has done this for ~5–6 years), running image captions through a wordlist and content… | ||
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