Hands on with mobile accessibility: process, gotchas, and exploding buses
What will we be getting up to?
Where do you get started with mobile accessibility? Following the success of this event in Leeds this summer, we’re delighted to welcome you to our offices in Manchester for an evening of discussion on accessibility standards and how to incorporate them effectively into your project, as well as an interactive workshop on accessibility support in React Native.
Bianca Darolti will be running a two-part workshop on mobile accessibility. She’ll start with a short talk, sharing her experiences, some tips and some gotchas.
After the talk there will be an interactive accessibility puzzle hunt using Expo Go. Attendees will be able to find and resolve accessibility issues in a sample app built by Bianca. She and a few Softwire colleagues will be on hand to give guidance and discuss best practices.
You can also expect pizza and an entertaining bug story or two – particularly the tale of the strangest screen reader bug report we ever received, the exploding bus.
Meet the speakers
Bianca Darolti
Technical Lead, Softwire
Bianca is a technical lead at Softwire with experience in developing React Native apps. She will share her the lessons she and her team have learnt on their last mobile project – ways of including accessibility in their development cycle, useful tools, and technical gotchas.
Agenda
- 17:00 – Event start
- 17:05 – Pizza & networking
- 17:30 – First talk
- 18:00 – Interactive workshop
- 19:00 – Event ends
Get your tickets now
This event free to attend! But places are limited, so please reserve your spot as soon as possible.
More information
Please bring a mobile phone if you’d like to get involved in the interactive part of the workshop, and considering installing the Expo Go app in advance to save time. A laptop will also be useful if you’d like to have a go at the programming segment.
If you need more information, please contact Bianca Darolti, Technical Lead at Softwire: [email protected].
Please also note that filming/photography may take place at this event for promotional and archival purposes. The photographs and recordings made are likely to appear on our website. If you would prefer not to be photographed please let the photographer know.