The eight appointment of our monthly meetup will be with Arran Ross-Paterson (Freelance Designer and Developer) and Laura Carvajal (Senior Developer and Accessibility Lead at FT.com).

Subjects of this evening will be "accessibilty" and "inclusivity", two general principles that apply not only to the design and the development of products and services, but to the entire spectrum of our activies.

Schedule of the evening

18:30 - Doors will open. Welcoming drinks and pizza.
19:00 - A journey into inclusivity. - Arran Ross-Paterson
19:45 - Some more pizza and drinks
20:00 - YES, your site too can (and should) be accessible - Laura Carvajal
20:45 - End of the meetup

A journey into inclusivity

In this session, we’ll talk about making your accessibility have value for your users. Through contextualizing ability and impairment with your user want.

Arran Ross-Paterson

Arran is a Freelance designer and developer. He has been working in the digital space for twelve years and has a passion for the usable and accessible both on and off the web.

Twitter: twitter.com/arranrp

Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/arranrp

YES, your site too can (and should) be accessible. Lessons learned from building FT.com

In 2016, The Financial Times launched a new version of our website to great success. It broke ground on key areas in which they'd set out to excel, like performance, resilience, and usability. But one day, and rather serendipitously, they realized they had largely forgotten about one thing: accessibility.

In this talk, Laura Carvajal will go over how The Financial Times went from being generally oblivious about accessibility to making it a core part of their process across multiple divisions. She'll share the roadblocks they found and the lessons they learned, along with tangible solutions you can integrate them into your own project today, regardless of available time, budget or support.

Laura Carvajal

Laura Carvajal is a senior developer at the Financial Times building FT.com. Laura has been working in web development for the past 12 years. She has a Ph.D. in Software Engineering and Usability.

Twitter: twitter.com/lc512k

GitHub: github.com/lc512k

Sponsor

The sponsor of the evening will be Pusher. They will kindly offer the space and refresh us with pizza and drinks. The talks will be recorded and published on their Sessions platform. Thanks from WEBdeLDN for hosting us.