Accessibility often ends up on developers’ plates, but many accessibility issues can be caught and avoided in the design phase!

So, what can designers do to make products more accessible? To start, we can include accessibility best practices in our designs, typically in the form of WCAG best practices (no worries if you’ve never heard of them — we’ll cover them). We can also audit our design for issues and proactively correct them upfront. And finally, we can document accessibility and interaction requirements to make it easier for developers to implement components properly.

If you're wondering how to handle all of this without knowing about accessibility, don't worry. That’s what this one-day workshop is for. The goal is to equip you with both the theory and the tools (e.g., checklists, plugins, and more) to help you audit, design, and document accessible mockups for your products and services.

In this hands-on workshop, you will be working in Figma in small groups, using different plugins, tools, and checklists. At the end of the workshop, you will get access to all the materials to apply to your own designs, from slides to checklists to cheat sheets and design tools.