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2024 Web Accessibility In Mind Conference

Compliance is crucial for federal websites, ensuring accessibility and uniformity.

Delivering a smooth experience for site users relying on assistive technology.

Automated accessibility checkers can be extremely helpful, but only cover about 30% of potential issues.

This presentation covers strategies to rapidly complete such projects, highlighting a three-week redesign for a national campaign using the Australian Government design system.

The U.S. Web Design System's been around for six years. As USWDS grows beyond 2.0, there's an opportunity to make subsequent versions even easier to integrate and upgrade. Drupal powers much of the government web, and this session will be an opportunity to discuss the potential, pain, and possibility of using USWDS with Drupal projects - particularly as both your projects and the design system mature.

As part of the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience, government agencies are required to modernize their websites using the U.S. Web Design System (#USWDS) to improve the public’s customer experience.

It’s important that content meets accessibility standards, however many people don't know what guidelines to follow. A few simple tips will help anyone writing content meet accessibility standards (WCAG) and ensure content is accessible for everyone.

Small things count - Create accessibility compliant digital content by distributing roles & responsibilities across cross functional teams.

While accessibility is a “top priority”, it's clear the entire web industry has been thinking about it in a way that has failed all of us.