The text in the slides is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible. The PDF is exported from PowerPoint, after confirming reading order and alternative text. The PDF itself has had no editing. Not perfect, I know. I do not make the PowerPoint file available because my slides have been taken and used by others before, and I believe they should have to exert at least some modicum of effort to steal from me.
Workshop: Prototyping Accessibility
The day before the conference I also ran a half-day workshop. Some of the resources I mentioned in that workshop (which are mostly mine but which link to supporting materials):
Chief Accessibility Officer/Queen sounds like a great career path #A11yCamp2024
LinkedIn
On right now: Adrian Roselli leading the ‘Prototyping Accessibility’ workshop. He is doing an introduction to digital accessibility concepts and approaches.
I picked up two major themes: First, was about the ubiquity and wide reach of accessibility (in fact, there was even a talk by Greg Alchin called “Ubiquitous Accessibility”!) Ally Tutkaluk and Michelle Chu+Nicholas Stathakis demonstrated how accessibility principles have relevance to different platforms and user types, while Adrian Roselli‘s exploration of different career paths outlined how accessibility exists in many job roles. And of course my Bridgerton talk was all about how you can find accessibility everywhere, including Regency-era historical romantic TV shows.
I was so lucky to attend #A11yCamp2024 this week in Melbourne.
I felt right at home as if I were back in Toronto among my ID community and A11yTO Camp, Thank you!
🔹 Adrian Roselli brought his signature humor, combined with some innovative wall art from Melbourne, to illustrate a new approach to accessibility and design.
🌟 Keynote speaker Adrian Roselli humorously emphasized that everyone — product owners, developers, salespeople, and procurement professionals — plays a pivotal role in digital accessibility.
My Posts
These are what I shared on Mastodon during the event.
I like that #a11yCamp2024 has an early session (8:15am) that provides a very high level intro to digital accessibility.
Great opportunity for new presenters, lets other speakers know they don’t have to cover the basics, gives the audience a chance to get the lingo and concepts that speakers will likely use throughout the day.
[Edited to correct the hashtag by including the year.]
Maia Miller had a Bridgerton-themed talk and wore flowers in her hair as a nice prop (i can’t do that, so I was impressed).
Charlii Parker had the Rebel March from Star Trek (Wars) as her walk-on music. Kinda bad-ass.
Ally Tutkaluk talked about drugs & alcohol and the mental & emotional impacts they have. Her experience showed some common themes (in the slide).
Michelle Chu and Nick Stathakis discussed Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s iView Android video streaming app. They explained the app rebuild using Jetpack Compose while focusing on color, grouping, and focus management.
Greg Alchin talked about ubiquitous accessibility. A lot in there to distill to a post.
Donna Spencer covered approaches for making a dark theme color palette (using tints / shades and LCH color space). Donna also called me out for putting her on the spot in my keynote.
Sarah Federman won me over in her screen reader talk by starting with platform accessibility APIs.
Beau Vass talked about false positives and negatives from automated testing tools (browser-based, crawlers, linters, integrated tools, etc).
Beau: “If you don’t know what [an image sprite is], ask the old people in the room.” DAMN. I feel appropriately called out.
Jaunita George went over how to build and manage a vendor monitoring program. She encourages everyone to steal her slides and use them in their own job. Her slides are at bit.ly/vendora11y2.
Allison Ravenhall offered what I like in a talk — a hard story of getting it wrong (unofficially and verbally sub-titled “I fucked up”).
Donna Purcell used her closing keynote to talk about inclusion in the workplace, including where it comes from and how to sustain it.
With this update I also replaced the post thumbnail with a tiny extract from the sketchnotes from my talk. Specifically the coffee mug that indirectly represented Steve’s career.
If while watching the video you notice a cut at 18:39, that was the editors removing a chunk of conversation where I was given a 5 minute warning about 20 minutes early. I can only assume they cut it because my panic would just make the viewer anxious.
With this update I also replaced the post thumbnail with a tiny extract from the sketchnotes from my talk. Specifically the coffee mug that indirectly represented Steve’s career.
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