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Accessibility at large webinar

Welcome to a live talk on how organisations can scale accessibility across their digital services by utilising a design system.

Today people are more dependent on performing tasks online than ever. Service providers need to ensure inclusiveness of their services since inaccessibility is plain annoying for some but direct exclusion for others. These exclusive patterns can be prevented with design and development.

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Webinar setup

Scaling accessible user patterns happen with design systems. Design systems have changed the way designers and developers collaborate to create and maintain digital service ecosystems. They allow scaling accessible design and making inclusivity the baseline for the digital customer experience.

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Background

The aim of the webinar was to combine our knowledge in design systems and accessiblity. Throught the talk, my colleage Pekka Puhakka and myself, discussed the benefits of design systems for scaling user interface cohesion, and the resulting possibilities to additionally increase web accessibility.

On-demand webinar recording