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This session takes a reverse engineering approach to web accessibility. It starts with a website that meets accessibility guidelines and passes audits, then systematically removes the elements that make it usable. By breaking keyboard navigation, removing alternative text, obscuring semantic structure, and ignoring color contrast, the talk shows how everyday design and development decisions can quickly turn a functional site into one that is unusable. The session demonstrates that accessibility failures affect not only people with disabilities, but also anyone relying on keyboards, assistive technologies, or constrained environments. By seeing accessibility dismantled step by step, participants gain a clearer understanding of why accessibility is foundational to usability rather than an optional add on.
What You Will Learn
How common design and development choices can break accessibility in predictable ways
Why accessibility issues impact a much broader audience than is often assumed
How accessibility underpins overall usability and user experience
Who Should Attend
Front end and web developers
UX and product designers
Accessibility practitioners and testers
Engineering teams responsible for web quality and user experience
