Accessing Accessible Accessibility

GDG Berkeley
Thu, May 3, 2018, 7:00 PM (PDT)

About this event

Get excited! :) Our friend, Jennifer Wong will be joining us as our speaker!

Jennifer is a self-taught software engineer. She spends her days making the web a prettier and more user-friendly place. She has written for Net Magazine and had projects covered by Mashable, Engadget, Gizmodo, and more. Jenn is an avid conference speaker and loves eating, coding, and sleeping.

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Accessing Accessible Accessibility

The World Health Organization states that one billion people live with disabilities. And estimates put internet usage with a screen reader as high as 3.4% of all internet traffic around the world. Web accessibility can help.

So what is web accessibility and who needs it? Is engineering accessibility enough? How do you build an cross-functional accessibility culture? And what can you do to prevent regressions?

I had all the same questions… and only four months to guarantee all our consumer user flows were accessible. Well, what happened? Come learn what it takes to lead a web accessibility movement within your company!


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