Charlie Triplett
Accessibility Manager at StarbucksCharlie Triplett is a champion of inclusive UX design and accessible UI engineering.
He helps teams unlock innovation with an approach using accessibility as a design tool (not just another requirement) leading to greater business gains.
He invented and open-sourced MagentaA11y.com, a tool for generating atomic level accessibility acceptance criteria. Meanwhile, they say there's no playbook for accessibility, so Charlie wrote one: The Book on Accessibility is an operational guide for focusing any sized organization on accessibility.
He lives in Seattle, WA where he enjoys hiking, canyoning and a good latte.
Accessibility as a Design Tool
Beyond Compliance to InnovationLet's get ready for the European Accessibility Act (EAA) by embracing inclusion as a powerful design tool, not just another requirement.
This workshop will lead participants through the basics of assistive technology, WCAG criteria and how to use these principles in a way that truly speeds up development for your products.
You'll build a foundation for continuing to evolve in your accessibility journey, innovating better solutions for all people.
You won't just come out of this workshop with information, you'll walk out with a mindset you can use in your next product.
In the training, we'll learn:
- How to dispel myths
- How assistive technology (like screen readers) work
- Core design patterns to adopt and which to avoid
- Where to interpret WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
In the workshop we'll put the training to use:
- Design our way through basic and complex interactions
- Annotate a UI for development
- Defend our design to stakeholders who don't understand accessibility (yet)
Innovating with Accessibility
Here's the deal: Average ideas for average people wins the race to be… average. Innovation isn't magic; it's predictable and repeatable if you know where to find it. Treating accessibility as an extreme use case (not an edge case) generates new valuable products — both digital and physical.
We'll see how accessible first design is not just the right approach for innovative UX outcomes— it's the smartest.