Charlie Triplett

Accessibility Manager at Starbucks

Charlie 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.

Thu 23 May

14:00

Room 5

workshop

Accessibility as a Design Tool

Beyond Compliance to Innovation

Let'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)

NOTE: A laptop is recommended for this workshop.

Fri May 24

16:00

talk

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.