Maxim Malisciuc
AUTHADA GmbH, Senior Android Developer
Traben-Trarbach, Germany
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I am a Software Developer with over 10 years of experience, primarily as an Android Developer. Along the way, I've also worked with Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), and various other technologies—whatever gets the job done.
I'm a regular attendee of Droidcon Berlin 🤖 and passionate about sharing knowledge. I strive to make my talks engaging, insightful, and easy to digest, ensuring they provide real value without feeling overwhelming.
Beyond speaking, I’ve published several articles and developed three apps that are actively helping doctors in Ukraine every day.
I consider myself easygoing, but that doesn’t mean I lack expertise—I simply believe learning and sharing should be enjoyable.
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When Compliance Breaks the UI: A Story of Mobile Accessibility
TLDR; What will you learn:
- Why focus on Accessibility?
- What's EAA and why it is so messy?
- Examples and Lessons learned
- Discussing compliance of some common UI elements
- What to do when meeting one criteria breaks another?
I'll try to add a permissible dosage of memes to make the leaning more comfortable.
TLDR; is over!
EU Parliament voted that all apps until 28 June 2025 should be compliant with Accessibility Act. (*+5 years transition *kind of*)
Many of you are already deep into this process, so in this talk, I’ll focus less on the basics and more on real-world examples and solutions, which I will back up by specific success criteria and legislation within the EAA.
Over the past year, I’ve been working intensively to bring my company’s legacy app into compliance. It’s been a deep dive into regulations, guidelines, and scattered resources - a true rabbit hole.
The lack of clear, practical guidance makes accessibility compliance both time-consuming and complex.
In this talk, I’ll walk you through our journey -highlighting the unexpected challenges, non-intuitive pitfalls, and hard-earned lessons along the way.
I’ll also share a surprising statistic that might help you advocate for accessibility when speaking to stakeholders or decision-makers.
My goal is to save you weeks of research by giving you practical tips and simple rules and solutions that can push your app ahead on the way toward compliance.
And maybe, just maybe, I can plant a small seed - one that encourages developers to think more often about people with disabilities, and to make every ticket, every commit, just a little more inclusive.
Navigating the Roadblocks to EAA Compliance
How many of you found yourselves writing code, and making
contentDescription = null? or contentDescription = "arrow button"?
My hope is that after my talk you won't do that anymore! Or maybe you have to do that?
EU Parliament voted that all apps until 28 June 2025 should be compliant with Accessibility Act. (*+5 years transition)
-What is EAA?
-Disabilities
-WCAG 2.2 Guidelines
-How to make your apps compliant? (It is not as easy as one might think)
-Examples and lessons learned
-Tricks that let you go beyond just content descriptions.
For many months now I've been working on making my company's App compliant, and I had to do a lot of research. This subject is a rabbit hole, and finding clear concise information is not always easy, making it very time consuming, and complex.
I will show you our journey to EAA compliance, and share with you challenges, and pitfalls that I did not estimate.
My hope is that with this talk i can save countless weeks of research for other people, and give you a few rules, and tips, after applying which your Apps should already be 80%+ more compliant.
Maybe I could plant a seed that would make developers think about people with special needs, and in each closed ticket make their App at least slightly more inclusive.
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Maxim Malisciuc
AUTHADA GmbH, Senior Android Developer
Traben-Trarbach, Germany
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