Wednesday
Room 4
10:20 - 11:20
Session (60 min)
Accessibility + TDD == easy && !impossible
After years of dramatic improvements in standards and tooling, many developers are still hesitant to invest too much time and energy into accessibility. There is a widespread myth in the industry that it will be hard work, and that few users would value it anyway.
In this talk, Maia Miller (Accessibility Consultant) & Chris Simon (TDD Trainer) will bust this myth wide open with a combo of live coding and experience of building more accessible and usable websites.
Test-Driven Development encourages writing tests that express the intent of user-meaningful outcomes and coupling those tests to stable public interfaces of the code. For a front-end, the most stable interfaces that capture the user's intention are the accessibility APIs.
Join Maia & Chris and learn how to combine the magic of TDD and accessibility to spend less time building better quality sites that are usable by more people.
Maia Miller
Maia is the Managing Director of Aleph Accessibility. An IAAP-certified web accessibility specialist, she brings a wealth of technical expertise and accessibility knowledge to the table. Maia has an innate ability to translate complex concepts into clear and easily digestible content. Her contagious enthusiasm for web accessibility is combined with a pragmatic, down-to-earth approach to software development, providing audiences with practical strategies for successfully embedding accessibility into their digital products.
Chris Simon
Chris is a technology coach and advisor helping technology teams drive business success. He has a particular focus on helping startups realise their vision and new CTOs flourish in their roles. He also supports executives & boards with strategic technology advice, and engineering teams with training, mentoring and consulting in architecture, quality, domain-driven design and test driven development.
He is a regular meetup & conference speaker (https://chrissimon.au/speaking/) and to support teams using Domain-Driven Design, he recently launched https://contextive.tech & co-founded the DDD Australia meetup.
He is the technical co-founder of https://www.inloop.com.au, home of Australian Fintech success stories https://www.flexischools.com.au and https://www.lanternpay.com (recently acquired by NAB).