October 24, 2023 — ¿Por dónde empiezo? Es lo que más me pregunta la gente que quiere tener una web más accesible. Una respuesta general no siempre es posible, porque no es posible pasar del 0 al 100 sin pasar por todos los valores intermedios. Pero para esta ocasión me voy a mojar y te voy a mostrar qué debería cumplir una web mínimamente accesible.

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October 22, 2023 — Are you facing aggressive, resistant, or defensive reactions from your design or development colleagues, your marketing department, your managers, or even your full-service advertising agency as soon as you start talking about accessibility? Do you want to learn how to counter and motivate them? Join my talk, and you’ll leave with some fantastic techniques and tactics to persuade them!
This talk is aimed at those who already work in the field of digital accessibility and hold a leadership or inspirational role. It’s essentially a peer-to-peer boost.
One of the worst things that can happen to people in creative professions is feeling confined in their creativity, tools, and toys. Whether it’s graphic design, content, or code, it leads to unproductive frustration.
But in reality, it’s not the rules and guidelines of digital accessibility that cause frustration. It’s the assumptions and misunderstandings associated with it.
In this talk, I will share how I guide and inspire designers, developers, and content creators to rock accessibility.
What’s in it for you?
First: You’ll take home some great analogies that will help you convince your colleagues.
Second: You’ll know how to calculate and present the hidden/unexpected and usually significant financial consequences for stakeholders who rely on money.
Third: You’ll receive a list of ways to discuss this topic with your colleagues worldwide.

October 20, 2023 — Wenn es um Digitale Barrierefreiheit geht, werden oft Screen-Reader und blinde Menschen genannt. Doch was ist mit der Barrierefreiheit für Menschen im kognitiven Spektrum, z.b. mit Autismus, Legasthenie und Dyskalkulie.
In diesem Vortrag erkläre ich, worauf man beim Gestalten einer Webseite und der technischen Umsetzung achten sollte, um die Webseite auch für Menschen im kognitiven Spektrum barrierefrei zu bauen.

October 13, 2023 — Learn how to use tools and procedures to significantly speed up the design process and produce accessible designs.

This talk explains how to work with designers who have no accessibility background to create work that meets WCAG criteria.

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October 13, 2023 — Nothing about accessibility means you have to be boring. It just means you’re making your websites better. Just like when we realized there were a ton of different screen sizes to adapt to, it made our websites better for more people to use, accessibility is another way to give more people access to the sites you make.

We stick to conventions and best practices. We ask about audience and cater to their needs. Accessibility is about integrity. It’s about learning the basics, and using each new project as an opportunity to learn something new.

Let’s go over some amazingly creative ways to make fun and accessible websites.

October 13, 2023 — Navigation is the main component of a website when it comes to moving around different pages and finding content. For this reason, it is critical to design and develop accessible navigation. This means keeping those using different devices and assistive technologies such as screen readers in mind.

Accessible navigation is easy to understand, semantic, and adaptive. In this session, Steve will review the best practices to design and develop accessible navigation from start to finish. He’ll also discuss how to replace the navigation in an existing theme.

October 13, 2023 — Accessibility is about people. Web accessibility is about allowing people to use and understand websites without barriers.

This talk covers the different types of cognitive and physical abilities that people have. Learn more about how designers and developers create many unintended barriers to them using a website.

September 30, 2023 — When it became against the law to have an inaccessible website in Norway this speaker accepted it as an opportunity to raise their standards. Why not accelerate the process with a little help from an AI friend?

Learn how to harness AI to enhance the accessibility of your website, resulting in increased user engagement and better overall user experience.

September 17, 2023 — “El vídeo es el formato de contenido estrella, no hay discusión al respecto. Pero también es el que presenta mayores problemas de accesibilidad de forma innata. Una solución que cada día es más frecuente es la subtitulación de los vídeos. Hasta las redes sociales de vídeos cortos ofrecen herramientas para generar unos subtítulos automáticos más o menos acertados.
Pero, ¿e se falas galego ou català? Las lenguas cooficiales forman parte de la riqueza cultural pero ven restringida su presencia en los contenidos en vídeo principalmente por la falta de herramientas que generen esa subtitulación automática.
En esta charla te explicaré cómo usando herramientas basadas en IA y herramientas open source puedes subtitular y traducir tus vídeos en tu lengua materna. Así estarás creando contenido diverso e inclusivo que difundir tu web hecha con WordPress y en tus redes sociales.»”

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August 19, 2023 — Los constructores visuales como Elementor son la herramienta básica para muchos profesionales del desarrollo de webs con WordPress. Ahora para crear una web ya no es necesario escribir (ni aprender obligatoriamente) HTML y CSS, se hace todo con un editor drag and drop, ¡más fàcil que hacer un PowerPoint oiga!

Pues sí, nos parece muy bien que tener una página sea más fácil y accesible a nivel técnico pero, ¿esa página puede ser accesible para las personas que la visiten?, ¿si no pueden acceder cómo te van a comprar?, ¿te lo habías planteado siquiera? Probablemente no, pero tenemos la solución y no se trata de ningún plugin, o tal vez sí…

Acompaña en esta charla a este temido comando proaccesibilidad y descubre cómo usar tu constructor visual para crear una web más accesible.