Everything you need to know about accessibility but were afraid to ask

Sydney

Digital Product Deep Dive

If you’re a backend developer, you need to know about digital accessibility; it's not just for front-end developers. Gian Wild has been in the accessibility industry for 25 years and is here to tell you everything you need to know, from why accessibility is important and who it helps to the legal requirements and litigation. Most importantly, in this talk Gian will help you to figure out what you, as a dev, would need to do to make your product accessible and to how to do it.

About Gian

Gian Wild is the CEO of AccessibilityOz, with offices in the United States, Europe and Australia.
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She has worked in accessibility industry since 1998, when she worked on the very first Australian accessible web site. Her major achievements include: six years’ active membership in the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group contributing to WCAG2; her speech on the importance of web accessibility at the United Nations Conference of State Parties in 2015; and the release of the ICT Mobile Site Accessibility Testing Guidelines as the Mobile Sub-Committee Chair of the ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium. In 2019 Gian won the inaugural Accessibility Person of the Year. Gian speaks at conferences in Australia, US, Canada, South America and Europe.