Workshops
Dive into Inclusive Design
Charlii Parker & Russ Weakley
When: 9 AM Tuesday 22 October 2024
Where: Studio Room, Pearl Riverfront at Crowne Plaza, 1–5 Spencer Street, Melbourne
Duration: 3 ½ hours, morning tea will be provided
Collaborate, create, and test designs with people with lived experience – breaking barriers and building solutions for everyone.
In this 3 hour workshop, Charlii and Russ give you the opportunity to experience inclusive user testing. To start, in small group you will be given a design problem to solve.
After coming up with a solution, it will be reviewed by participants with lived experience who will provide insights into how the solution affects them.
Charlii Parker is a digital accessibility advocate, with a focus on the end user. Charlii firmly believes that truly accessible, inclusive experiences can only be created with input and feedback from end users. She has over 10 years experience working in digital access and inclusion across Government, Not-for-profit, and private enterprise.
Russ Weakley has worked in the design and development field for more than 20 years. Russ is a User Experience professional, user-focused web designer, front-end developer, and trainer who is passionate about accessibility and inclusion.
Prototyping Accessibility
Adrian Roselli
When: 1:30 PM Tuesday 22 October 2024
Where: Studio Room, Pearl Riverfront at Crowne Plaza, 1–5 Spencer Street, Melbourne
Duration: 3 ½ hours, afternoon tea will be provided
An introduction to digital accessibility concepts and approaches, specifying a minimal user interface element for practice. No code or computers needed (nor used).
Learn some fundamentals of accessibility and how it can benefit you (whether future you from aging or you after something else limits your abilities).
In this session, we’ll:
- review differing abilities
- generate (minimal) user stories and personas
- discuss best practices for design and development
- prototype some ideas (on paper)
- discuss where to get help
This isn’t intended to be a deep dive into technologies, but more of an overall primer for those who aren’t sure where to start with accessibility nor how it helps them.
Adrian Roselli has been developing for the Web since 1993. He has served in W3C working groups, written articles for trade journals and web sites, participated as an author and editor on five web-related books, and was a founder of evolt.org, one of the first and largest communities for web developers in the 1990s. Adrian co-founded a software development consulting firm in 1998, growing it to a dozen spin-off companies and 100+ employees. He left the firm after 18 years to focus exclusively on digital accessibility as a consultant, offering reviews, training, management consulting, and more.
