Dev
Design
Marketing
Business
Date
May 29, 2024 12:00 pm
Duration
40 min
Location
Marble Hall
During this talk, Ondřej will guide you through the whole process of creating an accessible website for the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, from initial planning to the Accessibility Statement. He’ll cover common accessibility mistakes that can occur during the design, development, and content creation stages, providing detailed and specific examples. You will gain insights into how challenging accessibility projects can be, especially if you cooperate with several companies.
This talk is suitable for everyone, including designers, researchers, developers, content creators, project managers, CEOs, and anyone else interested in creating accessible websites.
For questions and further discussion find the speaker in the Speaker’s Corner right after their talk.
Ondřej Pohl
Accessibility Director
ACTUM Digital
Ondřej has over 12 years of experience working in UX, research, and team management. For the past five or more years, though, his primary focus has been accessibility. Currently, he is the Accessibility Director at ACTUM Digital, an international digital technology agency. As one of the two Certified Professionals in Web Accessibility (CPWA) in the Czech Republic, he started a podcast about web accessibility, "Bez bariér”, along with the first-ever CPWA expert, Radek Pavlíček. His main goal is to popularise accessibility and educate people, which he considers the easiest way to make websites and applications accessible. He is also invested in getting the Czech government and public sector to embrace accessibility.
