“Building for Everyone” is an event entirely focused on accessibility and inclusion in technology, with the mission to educate developers to incorporate accessibility best practices into their products, and to raise awareness about accessibility guidelines and tools.

At the event, attendees will learn how to develop products and applications that are more accessible and inclusive, and use the accessibility testing tools available.
Registration will open at 5:30 pm and close at 6:45 pm (last entry). The sessions will start at 6:30 pm.

Agenda

5:30 PM - Registrations and networking

6:30 PM - Welcome and introduction

6:40 PM - Keynote: Building inclusively, building accessibly - Christopher Patnoe

7:10 PM - Building for Accessibility in Reusable Components - Emily Meng

7:40 PM - Q&A

8:00 PM - Networking

Talk description

• Keynote - Building inclusively, building accessibly: Christopher will discuss three principles about building inclusively and will share examples from Google demonstrating them in products and services, and the challenges that brings.
• Building for Accessibility in Reusable Components: How the Google Maps Platform approaches building accessibility into reusable components which get used by developers in many different ways.