Talks
Sharing my findings, experiments, and techniques on digital accessibility and front-end development at meetups and conferences.
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a11y Testing Is Broken: How Lighthouse and Axe Fail in Real Projects
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is coming, and companies will rush to certify their websites as accessible in the easiest way possible. But high Lighthouse and Axe scores don't mean real accessibility. Many will rely on these tools to 'prove' compliance, despite their critical blind spots – broken focus, misleading ARIA, and inaccessible dynamic content. Even more confusing, Lighthouse and Axe are built on the same foundation, yet they can produce different results. So let's break down these flaws and explore better ways to ensure true accessibility.
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Chrome tools to test Accessibility
I'll walk you through straightforward Chrome tools that help make your website accessible to everyone. I'll also look at some fresh statistics from recent legal cases in America and dissect a real-life example of a common accessibility mistake. Ensure your site is a welcoming space for everyone!
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⚡️Lightning Talk: Error 404: Field label not found
Imagine trying to fill in a form while blindfolded. Sounds challenging, right? Now imagine the form also spoke a language you didn't understand. Welcome to the world that many blind users face every day!
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Android Accessibility: Do or Do
It is more convenient for blind people to use a smartphone than a computer! Of course, this statement is not true for everyone, but there are more and more smartphone users, and mobile operating systems are very quickly developing an accessible environment. Creating an application and uploading it to the store is also becoming easier. But these apps are often inaccessible to users with disabilities and do not work properly with accessibility settings (such as larger fonts). I'll go through the main problems that users face and tell you how to solve them.
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Accessibility audit of the Walmart marketplace: is it as accessible as stated
A practical accessibility audit of the Walmart marketplace, checking every step of the purchasing flow from the perspective of an average user, a keyboard-only user, and a screen reader user.
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There is always a way to fix Accessibility
This is the story of how one accessibility auditor came to a website and found some errors, and then came to a web application and found the same errors... and decided to tell everyone! Accessibility is a new area for developers, where there is not yet much experience to rely on. In accessibility, it is always difficult to put yourself in the place of each user and understand what will be convenient for them and how to implement it right. In the talk, I will show the most common developers' mistakes that I find on any platform during an accessibility audit.