Building an Accessibility Culture, One Step at a Time

Accessibility is an interesting part of building a project. Arguably easy in some areas, and incredibly difficult in others. Touching product, design, engineering and testing. Everyone can play their part — or not. From dealing with not knowing what you don’t know, to organizational buy-in, to having enormous impact on your users. In this presentation I want to share how we (started) overcoming these challenges at WeTransfer, from iOS to web, and how we’re seeing that path ahead.

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1. Building an Accessibility Culture Bas Broek, Swift Connection, 2024
2. Building an Accessibility Culture One Step at a Time Bas Broek, Swift Connection, 2024
3. Why do we do this?
4. Accessibility is a you problem.
5. Accessibility is an us problem.
6. Where do we start?
9. Taking a step back
10. Making Accessibility Accessible
11. Navigate by voice
16. Good first accessibility issues
17. Demo with assistive tech
18. Sponsors and peers
19. The bigger picture
20. What's (not) accessibility?
21. Localisation? Accessibility.
22. Dynamic Type? Accessibility.
23. Autocomplete? Accessibility.
24. Dark mode? Accessibility.
25. Sensory feedback? Accessibility.
27. Shifting left
28. Do it right Don't do it wrong
29. Talk to your users!
30. Apple does it right... right?
32. So now what?
33. Pushing a boulder up a hill
34. Make a mark.
35. Leave the world better than we found it.
36. It is worth it. Over and over again.
37. I believe in you.
38. You can do this.
39. Thank you! Bas Broek