Saptak S
Saptak S. is a human rights centered web developer, focusing on usability, security, privacy and accessibility topics in web development. He works as a web development contractor. He is a contributor and maintainer of various different open source projects like The A11Y Project, OnionShare and Wagtail. He is part of the Open Source Design core team. He is also the author of the Security and Accessibility chapter of Web Almanac 2022. One can find him blogging at saptaks.blog.
Sessions
Django is one of the most popular python frameworks used to create web applications. While a lot of people focus on the Django ORM and the Django templating engine, the Django framework also comes with a neat set of middlewares and plugins that can be used to add security headers to your applications. Security headers are a very important layer of defense for your website to keep your users protected. In this talk, we are going to discuss what the different security headers do, and how can we add them to django.
In recent trends, websites and softwares often focus on visual beauty and fancy UX rather than the basic human rights requirements such as accessibility and security. This session will cover how developers and designers can use progressive enhancement and other measures to ensure their products are accessible and privacy centric. It will also cover means for designers and developers to have better communication so that the designs don't get lost in translation by developers.