Charity workshop: Web Accessibility - Guidelines and Implementation
On March 4, we organized a charity workshop with the aim of raising funds to help a Ukrainian refugee center in Poland. This initiative was born from the hand of Maria, one of our colivers. She is Ukrainian and wants to do her bit.
About the workshop
Web accessibility goes from being a trend to a necessity, to achieve a world without barriers. When sites and web tools are well designed and coded, everyone can use them, including people with disabilities. However, many of them have accessibility barriers.
Web accessibility is an inclusive practice that ensures that websites are accessible and that tools and technologies are designed and developed for use by people with disabilities. It is essential for developers and organizations that want to create quality websites, without excluding anyone. It benefits people, businesses and society as a whole.
Making websites more accessible has become a necessity and many companies are already working on it. With the entry into force of the European Accessibility Act, all online products and services are expected to be accessible by 2025.
The workshop will help Product Designers, UX/UI Designers, UX Researchers, Product and Project Managers, Tech Leads and so on, to design websites in such a way that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, interact and contribute to the web. During the session we would practice in groups how to implement accessibility guidelines to the product.
Information about the workshop
Date: March 4 at 12:00h.
Location: VIU Coliving & Coworking (Lepanto Street 253, 08013 Barcelona)
Duration: 2 hours
Language: English
Price: 20 € (35€ for members of the Viu community)
Who is it for?
This workshop is aimed at product designers, UX/UI designers, UX researchers, product managers, project managers and technical leaders.
How to register?
You can contact Viu through hola@viubcn.com or by sending a direct message through our social networks that appear on the footer.
Required material
- Laptop
Topics covered:
- What is accessibility
- Why it's important
- 10 steps to get started
- How to test your product for accessibility
- Practicing implementing accessibility – during workshop implement the guidelines
What you get:
- Receive guidelines for accessibility
- Learn about tools to validate your products/projects
- Hands-on experience
- Teamwork in groups during workshop
- Snack at the end of the day to network
Where will the collection be used?
The price of this workshop will go entirely to help a Ukrainian refugee center located in Poland. This center is part of the NGO Pamagaem and its work consists of:
- Volunteers go to hot war zones for evacuation of people
- They bright humanitarian aid to de-occupied territories
- Host people who lost homes and provide them with all needed: place to live, clothes, foods etc
Maria’s Bio
Hi! I’m Maria, a Product Design at Canadian Fintech company Questrade. I’m from Ukraine. As a designer, I’ve spent the last 5 years working at the world’s greatest studios, start-ups & established companies such as Halliburton, Publicis Sapient or Ministry of Health of Ukraine, to turn ambitious ideas into beautiful, considered interfaces. I also teach and mentor at Projector Institute, and I’m eager to share my experience with you.
I’m a big fan of Barcelona, I love art, and I endlessly pursue improving myself at all levels of life.
Anna’s Bio
Hello! I’m Anna, a Senior Product Designer, originally from Ukraine and currently living in Berlin. I bring over 9 years of experience in User Experience design. During those years I worked in different projects -mobile and web apps, startups, in established organizations such as SmartRecruiters and Halliburton.
I’ve also been helping produce the next wave of designers by teaching a UX Design for Beginners course for 2 years now.
In my free time, I love to produce and play electronic music. I am also a passionate meditation advocate, with dreams to one day open my own studio.
