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How to Build a Completely Inaccessible Website
Fri, 24 April
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
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How common design and development choices can break accessibility in predictable ways
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Why accessibility issues impact a much broader audience than is often assumed
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How accessibility underpins overall usability and user experience
Who Should Attend
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Front end and web developers
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UX and product designers
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Accessibility practitioners and testers
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Engineering teams responsible for web quality and user experience
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About the speaker
Scott Davis
Web Architect and Digital Accessibility Advocate
Scott Davis is a Web Architect and Digital Accessibility Advocate, focusing on the multisensory aspects of web development. In a world where half of all Google searches are done by voice, and 80% of all social media videos are watched with the sound off and closed captions on, accessibility is a springboard for innovation.
