Making Accessibility testing just part of the process
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Making Accessibility testing just part of the process
Alistair will provide an overview of modern Devops / Continuous Delivery practices, in order to illustrate how the infrastructure used to support these activities can also be used to support effective / efficient accessibility testing.
In his presentation he'll demonstrate;
• some examples that utilise a stand-alone Accessibility Testing Engine (written in JavaScript),
• where in the development pipeline accessibility testing can be done,
• and with what type of tests.
Accessibility testing can simply become part of your process.
Speaker Bio:
Alistair Garrison is the Director of Accessibility Research at Level Access. As a passionate and long-time champion of web accessibility, he has spent the majority of his career devoted to the specification and development of web accessibility evaluation methods, applications, and consultancy services to support inherent accessibility in the enterprise. Over the past few years, he has become progressively more focused on QA tool-supported accessibility testing; and how best to integrate it into Agile development processes. Alistair has been an invited expert for W3C/WAI for many years, and has helped to create several W3C / WAI documents (including the WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology, and WCAG 2.0 Techniques). Alistair currently participates in W3C/WAI’s WCAG 2.0 Task Force for Mobile Accessibility.
As an inclusive design and accessibility meetup, we are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion.
We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form in any venue, including talks, social events, or other channels of communication.
A meet up participant who violates these rules will be asked to stop.
Should the participant not comply, the participant may be expelled from the meet up.
• Interested in making products that are engaging and usable without excluding those with disabilities or the elderly?
• Work in a non-digital field and interested in inclusive design in digital?
• In Edinburgh for UX Scotland and in need of an Accessibility fix?
• Then we'd love to see you at our second Accessibility and Inclusive Design meet-up here in Edinburgh.
• Our theme for this event is Inclusive UX (User Experience).
• It's FREE, friendly and welcoming to all.
Speaker(s)
David Sloan
David Sloan is User Experience Research Lead with The Paciello Group (TPG). He joined TPG in May 2013, after nearly 14 years researching, teaching and providing consultancy on accessibility and inclusive design at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He is an active participant in a number of W3C accessibility-focused groups, and is an Advisory Committee member of the annual W4A Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility.
Specific accessibility requirements
If any attendees have any specific access requirements, please do email us to let us know and we'll do our utmost to accommodate.
Planning to attend?
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If anyone needs specific access requirements, please contact us directly.
As an inclusive design and accessibility meetup, we are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion.
We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form in any venue, including talks, social events, or other channels of communication.
A meet up participant who violates these rules will be asked to stop.
Should the participant not comply, the participant may be expelled from the meet up.
New!Title changed:Edinburgh Accessibility and Inclusive Design MeetupEdited at by peterheery