Talk Description
Accessibility is an often forgotten or unconsidered system quality criteria or non-functional requirement. What many might not know is that 15% of the world's population has some form of disability. Â
WeThe15 is the biggest ever human rights movement to end discrimination towards the world’s 1.2 billion persons with disabilities who represent 15% of the global population.Â
There will also be a brief introduction to Charters. These are the “unwritten rules” all teams have when looking at ways of working and software delivery.
Then focusing on what is an accessibility charter and why it's one of the most important ones to have in your toolkit.
What you’ll learn
By the end of this talk, you'll be able to:
- Describe the basics of accessibility
- Describe the basics of what Charters are
- Identify how an Accessibility Charter can be invaluable to your level of quality
Ady Stokes
Quality Engineering Architect
@A11y_Ady on Twitter (X). Passionate about accessibility, exploring and testing as part of the creation and development of software. I help teams build better software and I strongly believe in collaborative methods and using different thought techniques and people perspectives to look at things from many angles.
Accessibility is about inclusion, not just disability.
In my career I’ve been a Director. Test, BI and Logistics Manager. Tester, Test Engineer, QA, Site Lead Tester, Quality Engineering Architect and any other value adding role required at the time. I have also taught, coached and mentored people throughout my career.
My career highlight is creating the Software Tester Apprenticeship for the Coders Guild and training people to get their first role in IT through government sponsored free training courses based on my apprenticeship.
I have my own blog at The Big Test Theory.com sharing my thoughts, occasional poetry and my Periodic Table of Testing, a visual heuristic showing the breadth of the testing universe.
Scott Kenyon
Freelance Digital Delivery Trainer
My name is Scott , I have been part of the testing community for many years focusing on communication and neurodiversity in testing. being diverse myself i bring a different perspective on my own testing
I strongly believe in collaborative methods and using different thought techniques and people's perspectives to look at things from many angles. Communication is about the influence and impact we can have on others through testing and how we talk about it.
I now coach and teach testing and digital management to lots of people across the full spectrum of software delivery.
I have pioneered and developed the use of Charters across the digital workspace to enable clean and efficient ways of working.
