Accessibility

In this session, attendees will learn about the basics of accessibility through the lens of inclusive design; the talk will also highlight roles for developers as advocates and implementation specialists for accessibility. Situating people first, this session will examine how persons with disabilities—permanent, temporary, or situational—can face challenges working with non-accessible websites.

In this session for beginners or more advanced developers, you'll learn how best practices for accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO), as implemented in the early stages of development, can improve (1) your site's chance of being found, and (2) guide the next iterations in your development cycle.

When working with Drupal, most of what we’re working with out of the box contains some form of accessibility. However, when it comes to content on a Drupal website, not everything can be controlled by Drupal’s innate capabilities. PDFs are one of these items and are a major source of online content.

During this session, we’ll share clear methods on how to create and use accessible friendly PDFs with your web presence. 

We will cover:

Accessibility is essential for marketers that want to create high-quality content and not exclude people from using their products and services. If you’re in charge of your team’s marketing, you have a lot of things to cover between keeping it up to date, entering and managing content, and making sure it's all accessible.

As part of an inclusive content strategy, how accessible is your social media?

Getting it Done with Strategy

Accessibility is more than code, it’s more than UX, it’s also a vital part of your marketing strategy. In this session, we’ll talk about ways to talk about accessibility that showcase it’s value to your stakeholders. 

We’ll touch on:

• ROI -  metrics show accessibility is good for business.

• UX - how many of your non-disabled users aren’t converting? 

• SEO - get more out of your marketing budget!

• Legal - it’s real and really important.

This will be a session about the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) suite of web standards. Developers use ARIA to highlight the accessiblity features of their websites. The session is intended for developers who are famliar with accessibility and want to take advantage of ARIA to enhance the accessiblity of their web components.