2024-03-04 –, Lobby
Web accessibility clinic for open-source privacy and security tools: Enhancing user experiences for people with disabilities
Does your open-source project need a second opinion to improve accessibility features? Are you building/designing software and want to learn more about how to make your product accessible? Come visit the Accesibility Lab's help desk clinic hours to chat with the experts that can consult with you directly to cater to your needs.
One in 6 people across the world suffer from a disability. Many designers meanwhile know of design accessibility and may even recognize the growing need to ensure a design that is accessible to people with disabilities. Yet how to address web accessibility is commonly not well understood, and there are often sensitivities and myths.
Our idea is to explore the intersection of accessibility for people with disabilities with other disciplines, including language support, artificial intelligence, privacy and data protection, security, and safety. For example, how do AI bias, dark patterns, and lack of language support lead to discrimination, and how can we work together to ensure the inclusion of everyone? This clinic brings together expertise from various disciplines and geographies to share insights on interdisciplinary approaches for an inclusive design that enhances the navigation capacity of people with disabilities.
This accessibility clinic is a bold endeavour to encourage FOSS tool teams or individuals (designers, developers, decision makers, project managers, etc.) to talk about accessibility challenges and coach them in any way they need.
We perform live audits, training & testing with their tool, website or app using assistive technology to simulate disabilities.
🛈 This session won't be recorded and participation is only possible onsite.
Nancy Reyes Flores is a web accessibility evangelist in Latin America and a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competency. She has taken leadership in projects working to make websites and apps accessible.
In 2017 founded Accessibility Lab, an organization specialized in digital accessibility and social inclusion for people with disabilities, promoting a new ecosystem: internet for all.
She has collaborated with the Mexican government and other private sector companies.
She also works with non-profit organizations on behalf of the rights for people with disabilities.
She focuses on perspectives and challenges to accomplish digital inclusion.
Nancy is a member of Digital Accessibility Ambassadors, Mexican Council of Accessibility and Inclusion, and Mexican Society of Accessible Technologies and Universal Design. She is also co-chair for the program category, Human Rights-Centered Design on RightsCon Costa Rica Program Committee.
Raashi Saxena is a trainer and strategy consultant for the Accessibility Lab with extensive experience as a technologist, social impact innovator, and practitioner. She serves in a number of advisory roles, including for The Internet Rights & Principles Dynamic Coalition, Missions Publiques’s “We, the Internet" Project, and Threading Change, a sustainable fashion non-profit. As an international speaker, Raashi has spoken on panels and conferences across Africa, Asia, and Europe. She was highlighted as an expert in Mozilla's 2022 Internet Health Report and Pew Research Center's 2021 Report on Digital Spaces. Recognized by World Economic Forum as one of the Six Inspirational Young Female Leaders, Saxena is currently the Curator of Global Shapers Bengaluru Hub and is one of the 300 leaders of the 2020 Women Deliver Young Leaders Program represented by 96 countries. Raashi is based in Bangalore, India.