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Web accessibility smoke testing for critical issues
Developers can catch 90% of critical blocker accessibility issues with just a few quick checks. If each developer agrees to test their work for accessibility issues before committing to the branch or marking a story as “Done,” they can prevent major accessibility problems from advancing through the development pipeline. We will walk through two tests for…
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19½ Things You Didn’t Know about Accessibility in HTML and CSS
Think you know a11y? Think again. We’re skipping the “Alt Text” lectures and diving straight into the deep end—exploring the hidden mechanics of the Popover API, complex CSS layouts, and the architectural quirks that make or break the modern web.
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Is AI good enough for accessibility?
“Is AI good enough?” will be accessibility’s defining question for years. Deque has been benchmarking the AI in our testing tools against live, human-reviewed websites. Others are doing the same for AI-generated code, alt text, and captions. This talk shares what those benchmarks show, and the lessons we can learn about how much trust to…
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Axe vs. Claude: Should You Build Your Own AI Accessibility Tester?
Your team already has a frontier LLM and axe-core, so why not have AI do your accessibility testing? We put that question to the test by running do-it-yourself AI approaches and Deque’s Axe tools on the same pages many times over and scoring them against an expert human audit. We’ll share what we found on…
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Development Track Keynote – Day 1
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Beyond the Pixels: When CSS Art Meets Web Accessibility
CSS art is built from HTML and CSS, but its visual nature raises the same accessibility challenges as illustrations, diagrams, data visualizations, or animated interfaces. In this practical session, we’ll progressively improve one CSS illustration by adding meaningful semantics and text alternatives, supporting responsive layouts and user preferences, respecting reduced motion, and providing a resilient…
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Mobile Accessibility: Beyond the Basics
Native mobile accessibility knowledge has continued to grow over the last few years due to the built-in capabilities of Swift and Jetpack Compose. However, there are still large gaps in the mobile accessibility space, especially when accessibility is not handled by components out-of-the-box. In this session, we will cover where the basics are being met,…
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How Drupal Uses Automation, Community, and a Release Gate to Keep Accessibility First
Accessibility doesn’t happen by accident. For over a decade, Drupal has made accessibility a core part of its development process, balancing the need to ship new features with a commitment to building accessible experiences. Join two Drupal core maintainers as they pull back the curtain on how one of the world’s largest open-source projects uses…
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From audit to attestation in 90 days: running accessibility remediation like a software factory
After a Deque audit of four web products, 1Password had one quarter to fix every critical issue before attesting compliance. We built a small “factory”: audit findings flow into Jira, get grouped into batches, and AI agents turn each batch into a pull request. Engineers and designers stay the quality gates, and every fix is…
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One Phone, Two Screens: Unfolding Accessibility for iPhone Duo
iPhone Duo adds a compact outer screen, a large inner display, a centerfold, and several physical poses. That changes how people with disabilities navigate, perceive, and operate mobile apps. This session looks at Apple’s iPhone Duo guidelines through an accessibility lens, including side-edge navigation, adaptive layouts, and keeping focus and content continuous between screens. Through…
