GAAD 2021: Translating Design Wireframes into Accessible HTML/CSS (Workshop)

This live, 2-day virtual workshop is no longer available.

For a pared-down version, you can check out the on-demand Translating Design Wireframes into Accessible HTML/CSS webinar.

In celebration of this year's Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Deque is offering a free 2-day virtual workshop (6 total hours) for front-end developers and designers seeking practical accessibility skills that you can apply on the job. Attendees should be comfortable with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and have a basic understanding of what accessibility is.

Workshop Overview

The most efficient way to build accessible websites and apps is to “shift left” by incorporating accessibility testing into the earliest stages of your development and design process.

We will walk you through the process of analyzing a wireframe from an accessibility perspective, making coding decisions to optimize for accessibility, implementing that code, testing your code, and troubleshooting.

This 2-day online workshop will take the form of a sprint in miniature. You will work with Deque experts to…

Learn which accessibility-specific annotations should be made for your wireframes
Turn those wireframes into requirements
Prioritize and assign tasks
Learn how to approach implementing accessible web components and the challenges you may face
Build the components
Test the components
Manage accessibility systematically

This will be a highly interactive workshop focused on giving you practical experience integrating accessibility into the design and development process and helping you build your accessibility problem solving skills. Each 3 hour session will include a mid-point break and plenty of time for Q&A.

Please Note: This workshop will not be hosted on-demand, only the registrants will receive the recording.

About the team

Dylan Barrell is the Chief Product Officer at Deque. He has 20 years of experience in technology development, technical sales, product management, product marketing, and corporate development. Dylan believes in building a barrier-free web by making it really easy for developers, quality assurance engineers and content writers to create accessible applications and content.

Harris Schneiderman is a web developer with a strong passion for digital equality. He works for Deque as the Principal UI Engineer building awesome web applications. When he is not at work, he still finds time to contribute to numerous open source projects.