A talk by Samuel Proulx. To achieve true and lasting accessibility, organizations must be able to prioritize fixing critical problems that prevent people with disabilities from using your products or services. However, if accessibility feedback is prioritized along with all other feedback, critical accessibility issues may go unnoticed and unresolved, overwhelmed by minor inconveniences experienced by users who do not use assistive technology. And while automated testing is helpful and important, it gives no insight into the real-world impact any given error may have on your users with disabilities.

Drawing from Fable’s thousands of hours of experience performing testing and research involving people with disabilities, Samuel Proulx will provide a framework to help you prioritize accessibility issues from a user-first perspective.

Key takeaways:
• Where can automated testing help, and where are the gaps?
• How should organizations think about what assistive technologies to test with, and when?
• How can we prioritize feedback from assistive technology users?
• What are some good ways to start remediating existing products?
• Why does testing early save time, and create better experiences?