About the Instructor: Erin Doyle

Erin Doyle works as a full-stack Web Developer and Scrum Master at CashStar in Portland, Maine. She loves all things JavaScript and has been deeply focused on React for the last 2.5+ years. Her most notable OSS contributions include: react-a11y, react-dates, react-timezone, react-times, and react-redux-form. Much of the last 2 years she has been working on creating an eCommerce web application that is not only WCAG compliant but an actual pleasant user experience for ALL. She now tries to be a local evangelist for accessibility and the accessible user experience.

About the workshop

There is a significant portion of the population that have a disability that impairs their ability to effectively use the web. For some companies this is a usability concern in the pursuit of not excluding users or customers and for others it's a legal compliance concern. There are many tools and techniques available today that now make it possible to make our web apps accessible and even provide a great user experience inclusive of all users. However, it's a broad landscape and can be overwhelming where to start! This workshop aims to give students a strong head start by covering the following:

• Learn about the different disability groups and how they are impacted by web in-accessibility
• Work with tools for inspecting and testing for accessibility issues
• Learn to access web sites in the same way impaired users do
• Write accessible and extensible UI elements
• Write accessible custom UI widgets
• Iteratively test to see our accessibility issues resolved!

By the end of this workshop hopefully students will have a much better understanding of their target users and how to approach their web apps from those perspectives when testing for accessibility. The tools learned should help jump start students' ability to audit their own web apps for accessibility issues and point them towards how to learn more and effectively resolve those issues. Finally students will end up with a nice base of example React components that are accessible and can be used or built upon in their own applications.

Prerequisites

• Working Knowledge of JavaScript and HTML
• Familiarity with ES6+
• Working knowledge of React
• Working laptop set up for React development (node, npm, editor installed)

Tickets

Super Early Bird - Tickets are $399

Early Bird - Tickets are $499

General Admission - Tickets are $599