The Pokédex of Accessibility

Testing for access barriers is part of a comprehensive quality assurance process. But where does one start? While the WCAG are as extensive as the Pokédex, what is the assistive tech equivalent of Bulbasaur? Where do you start to catch ‘em all?

Automated testing has come a long way, but it’s not yet good enough for the champion’s league. So to become an Accessibility Champion, you need to learn how to pick the right starter testing tools and with a few manual testing tips and tricks, plus a training montage, you will be catching accessibility bugs and barriers, like no one ever has!

Accessibility Features in Chrome DevTools and beyond

You speak semantic HTML, aria is nothing you are afraid of and you want to bring your accessibility skills to the next level? Then this session is the right one for you.

Let's get started with testing using Chrome DevTools, familiarize ourselves with scenarios to understand how people with certain disabilities would perceive the web and even practice our understanding of screen reader and the Accessibility API.

After this session I want you to have a solid understanding of the tasks I am confronted with as a Web Accessibility Tester.

From Trashcan Blogger to Forbes Listmaker

Can you go from starting out as a self-taught UX designer to Forbes 30 under 30 in just 3 years? Apparently!

In this session, I break down the steps that ultimately landed me on the Forbes List. And yes, while trashcan blogging played a big part, there was more to it than my inconsistently published blog posts: a newsletter, professional development, speaker engagements, teaching in a coding boot camp, workshops, volunteering, community work, the oh so dreadful networking… You can do a lot in 3 years!

Career progression doesn't have to be linear, but your motivation has to be consistent. Easier said than done! Take the steps from my roadmap and formulate your own blueprint for career progression and job security from it!

How blind people navigate the world, on and offline

The WCAG are our non-tactile guiding lines for web accessibility, but many of us working in web accessibility have never experienced the real world through low-vision eyes.
This talk is a collaboration between UX for hardware and front-end development to give you the best of both worlds: on and offline. Together we will explore how a white cane can take you from point A to be and how a screen reader works through your main user flow.
At the core of this talk will be the fact that blindness is a spectrum and therefore, no one-size-fits-all solution exists. However, if you understand how blind users interact with your website, it's going to be easier to make decisions on what will be useful to users in a particular flow, design in a usable way, and choose the right tags in your code.

Accessibility is not a checklist!

Accessibility is not a checklist! Yet many focus on checking all the boxes to make their UI accessible and miss the bigger picture. Accessibility is not the goal in itself, but simply a means to an end: an inclusive experience for all users!

In this workshop, participants will learn how to spot the most common accessibility bugs plaguing an assistive tech user’s journey. Don’t know what types of assistive technology (or AT for short) are out there in the big wide world? No worries! Laura, UX Researcher for the AT development company Hope Tech, will explain what exists, how it works, and what’s so cool about it. Spoiler alert: It’s the ability to provide access.

Web accessibility has to be anchored in the code, which can look scary at first. But don’t worry! Google Development Expert Julia will guide you through the other side of the console.log and teach you how to communicate these issues to your dev team.

Invisible Stigma and its Influence on UX Research for Accessibility

Social desirability bias is a well-known fiend in the UX research field. But when doing research with persons with disabilities, there’s a new threat coming into play: Stigma. Stigma can affect participants’ self-reporting and research results. Participants with disabilities might be reluctant to disclose the extent of some barriers they encounter daily, out of subconscious fear of being stigmatized.

And here’s the catch with invisible stigma: You may already encounter participants with invisible disabilities, who are trying their best to compensate and conceal them to fit in. 15% of the world population have a disability, then how likely is it, that you never interviewed a user with a disability before?

Watch the recording on the Inclusive Design 24 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ-kS9Ahmo&list=PLn7dsvRdQEfFompoGO_CE5z-_HjEdgVit

Beyond Compliance: Inclusion as a Catalyst for Innovation

Accessibility in banking and personal finance is still not where it needs to be. The biggest issue: You can't simply opt out of using financial products.

While it may be an issue of compliance for service providers, it can be a question of survival for end users.

Thinking "Beyond Compliance" means listening to underserved communities, elevating internal standards for accessibility and quality assurance processes, and holding products to higher standards than what is legally mandated through the European Accessibility Act.

Inclusive design doesn’t mean designing for perfection; it means designing for reality.

First held at Ailleron Innovation Forum 2025

Semantic HTML Ratespiel: Who’s that code snippet?

Wie klingen semantische HTML Elemente im Screen Reader? Und wie in unterschiedlichen Sprachen? Eine interaktive Entdeckungs-Safari in assistive User Experience im Stil von "Who's that Pokémon?"

A-Tag Mai 2025