Accessibility is dead. Long live usability. – Johan Huijkman : #ID24 2017

Why should we focus on usability instead of accessibility? Because accessibility is about people. And as superfluous as it may sound it is still necessary to keep telling this to ourselves everyday. When deadlines approach and budgets get more tight it is difficult to maintain the right focus. It is very convenient then to have a long list of todo’s that you can tick off. Which is how WCAG often are seen: A long list of obligations. So how do we keep the right focus when we need to juggle budgets, deadlines, fantastic designs and advanced techniques? By seeing accessibility for what it really is: usability. And to do so we need the right tools and some guidance. This talk will provide you with the latter. Because the right guides are the most important tools you need.