The Plateau of Accessibility Compliance:
Where do we go from here?
Web accessibility has been dominated by the need for legal compliance for the last 20 years and this push has brought the accessible Web along by leaps and bounds. However the compliance-only approach to accessibility has run out of steam with many websites still having basic issues, a lack of disabled voices in this space, and stagnation in the accessibility industry.
This talk examines how web compliance works and where we stand in terms of web accessibility right now. Using video games as a comparator we will look at alternative approaches to accessibility that will introduce fresh ideas into our work and make disabled people the centre of what we do.
About Chad Gowler
Chad is a user researcher and accessibility advocate based in Sheffield in the UK. They have been working in tech for over a decade as a developer, user researcher and accessibility consultant. They do talks on inclusive design for transgender people, the importance of user research and most recently on using game design to improve accessibility awareness training. In their spare time you can find them curled up on an armchair with their two cats reading about social justice or playing JRPGs on their PS5.