Dawn Cooper
Dawn is a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer who started out as a freelance developer, and realised that learning about infrastructure and release systems would save time and money for everyone involved. As well as accidental accessibility advocacy, Dawn is on the organising team for the Melbourne AWS Programming and Tools meetup, and can regularly be found sharing knowledge within the Melbourne cloud infrastructure and DevOps communities. Outside work, Dawn is an occasional author and kitchen alchemist.
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Session
Approximately 20% of the world's population has some form of disability. Despite this, the vast majority of software isn't fully accessible. Making your systems readily usable for everyone is a complex process. Using good design principles and following the WCAG standards is a starting point, but how can you be sure that you're meeting the guidelines? And what if your users have access issues that aren't covered by the standards?
In this talk, we'll learn how to meet a variety of accessibility requirements by breaking down a series of real-world case studies. We'll look at why it's important to evaluate the accessibility of your software, what goes wrong when assessments don't happen, and how to apply these lessons to design systems that work for everyone.