Designing for Accessibility

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🛸 Speakers
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👽 Kate Whittaker cracked her coding teeth on a ZX Spectrum, this, combined with her love of libraries as powerhouses of knowledge, led to her fascination with the power of technology as a driver of change. Her passion for enabling access to information in all forms has led her a merry dance through early computer-based education and e-government in the UK, to crafting e-learning for global and local companies. Lately, she's plied her web accessibility know-how to help integrate it systemically for a global ed-tech player and is now using it to inform innovation for a smaller specialist private education firm, which offers a range of blended, in-person, and online courses in applied psychology. She'll walk us through how to approach implementing web accessibility (and broader concepts of inclusivity) across diverse teams in an organization.
👽 Schalk is a soon-to-be dad, and full-time freelancer working on various personal, commercial, and open-source projects. His focus lies within the worlds of user research, product design, and front-end development - having done consulting and/or contract work for National Treasury, The Google Foundation, Design Indaba, OpenUp, RunwaySale, CSS-Tricks, and various others. He also teaches product design at Cape Town Creative Academy, Codespace, Academy of Digital Arts, and codeX.
👽 Justin Slack is head of design and front-end at NML, a software development company in Cape Town. He is fluent in HTML, CSS, and javascript, and slightly obsessive about typography, web standards, and user-centered design. He co-founded the Cape Town front-end developers group in 2012 and is one of the co-founders of the non-profit organization, Front-end Development South Africa (FEDSA). Justin will walk us through how NML incorporates accessibility into their workflow.