January 22, 2019 — Website Accessibility should not be an option or afterthought. Learn what you should be doing to build website that are accessible to those with disabilities, and the available tools to implement and test your sites.

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January 17, 2019 — Not sure why building an accessible website is important? Beyond the point that is the right thing to do every freelancer should be following the best practices for creating websites that are accessible to the widest audience including those who rely on assistive technology. Accessible websites have the side benefits of faster loading speed and better SEO. Find out how you make website accessibility your new superpower to incorporate in your website projects.

January 7, 2019 — The ability to utilize and enjoy website content shouldn’t be limited to the those with perfect eye sight and neurotypical conditions. Learn about some of the best practices for having an accessible website, useful plugins, what Section 508 is, ways to be Section 508 compliant, and how to take steps to make your website accessible to all users.

January 7, 2019 — HeX Productions are working on their way to become a fully accredited accessible agency with every project being tested internally and externally for accessibility issues, it’s not been an easy road and we would like to share our experiences with you.

By providing live demonstrations and real world experiences James will talk through quick wins to help make your sites accessibility and help you agency move forward to only producing accessible websites without interfering with workflow.

James has a background of university work with sites such as Longwood and Queen Mary.

December 28, 2018 — This session is about creating accessible web sites. I will talk about:

Ontario’s accessibility requirements
Some tips for creating accessible code
Free tools to test for accessibility
WordPress themes that are accessibility ready and
Gutenberg and accessibility

People with disabilities can’t use Gutenberg effectively. Larger organizations who implement it may face legal fallout.
The WordPress accessibility community is rallying to make WordPress do the right thing by disabled users. I will talk about those efforts, as well as the efforts of the Gutenberg team to improve its accessibility.
Attendees will learn about:

how blind people use the web
creating accessible web sites
the guidelines that help you know what to do
free tools to test for accessibility and
accessibility ready WordPress themes

According to the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) beginning January 1, 2021 all public websites and web content posted after January 1, 2012 must meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA. Learn about meeting this requirement.
https://www.ontario.ca/page/how-make-websites-accessible.
Beginning January 1, 2014: new public websites, significantly refreshed websites and any web content posted after January 1, 2012 must meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level A.
Beginning January 1, 2021: all public websites and web content posted after January 1, 2012 must meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA other than criteria 1.2.4 (live captions) and 1.2.5 (pre-recorded audio descriptions).

December 14, 2018 — Nous sommes tous d’accord sur un point : l’accessibilité de nos sites et applications Web est importante. Cependant, on ne sait pas toujours par où commencer; les techniques peuvent être complexes, les tests d’assurance qualité plutôt ardus et la documentation est souvent difficile d’accès. Pour clarifier le tout, un portrait actuel de l’accessibilité ainsi que des idées préconçues vous seront présentés. Pour vous éclairer, 5 pistes de solutions vous seront présentées. Simples, mais importantes à intégrer dans votre “workflow”, elles rendront vos sites ou applications Web plus accessibles, et ce, dès aujourd’hui.

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December 13, 2018 — Imagine having a child with special needs being prevented from attending class each day, or your elderly parents being forced to constantly climb flights of stairs to eat meals? Inconceivable! But yet designers and developers make ill-advised, personal decisions that place barriers – ignoring twice as many disabled Americans than LIVE the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston combined.

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December 11, 2018 — Mobile devices provide an extraordinary opportunity to deliver a superior mobile experience to every user. But still, we, the Mobile Team at Automattic, faced some interesting challenges when we tried to make the WordPress Mobile Apps more accessible. This talk, by one of the developers involved in overcoming some of those challenges, will review the accessibility tools both iOS and Android provide, and will contain first hand information on the way we develop and test the WordPress Mobile Apps, always making accessibility one of our highest priorities, to make sure that we provide the experience that our users expect.

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December 6, 2018 — La loi de 2005 avec son décret de 2009 sur l’accessibilité numérique concernait les sites publics. En 2016, la loi sur la république numérique mentionne également les sites d’entreprise dont le chiffre d’affaires excède un certain seuil. Des pénalités financières commencent à se préciser. La directive européenne impose également des obligations aux états membres d’ici décembre 2018. Je vous propose d’y voir plus clair sur cette législation, pour ainsi mieux conseiller vos clients sur leurs obligations.

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November 26, 2018 — The design of a website can support, but also hinder the accessibility of the site. In this talk I would like to show the most common problems in the web in terms of accessible design and give an overview over good practice and also over potential conflicts between different accessible needs and how to deal with that.

In the talk I will show you tools and resources to that will help you to design accessible websites and also how to integrate accessibility from the beginning into the design process.

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