COSCUP 2023

Accessible & Privacy Centric Websites
2023-07-29, 13:00–13:30 (Asia/Taipei), TR 510
Language: English

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.


The talk is going to cover the following things:
- Who are the users of the web, what different assistive technologies they use, what are the different privacy needs
- How to use progressive enhancement to create accessible & privacy centric websites
- How to convert designs into products properly
- User testing and audits


Difficulty

入門

Target Audience

Open Source web developers and designers

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.

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