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Designing software and toolkits with accessibility in mind is important to ensure that everyone has equal access to the internet.

Léonie Watson is an accessibility engineer and a director at the British Computer Association of the Blind.

Questions

• What was your experience as a web developer in the late 90’s dot com boom?
• What is diabetic retinopathy?
• How does a screen reader work?
• What is a common design pattern to refactor inaccessible engineering to be accessible?
• Can you talk about how a webpage is converted to an audible format with accessibility APIs?
• How have smartphones affected what its like to be blind?
• Are there libraries, tools or best practices developers can use to improve accessibility?

Links

• Losing Sight
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Web A11y Slack
• Léonie’s Webpage

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