The European government has mandated that websites and web applications must be WCAG compliant by 2025. This means that in the rapidly evolving landscape of web development, ensuring the robustness and accessibility of a website is of ever-growing importance.
In this presentation, we will take a look at how to start writing user-friendly, high-quality, accessible websites for a variety of handicaps and assisted web browsers/tools. We will explore some of the most common ways to enable valid semantic aids for accessibility & usability and how to test WCAG compatibility.

As Bill and Ted discovered in their excellent adventure, it can be easier to learn through hijinks, trials and practice than through reading. How can we learn from their experience to get better at web accessibility? Accessibility is essential to build into our work, but it has a high barrier to entry and is notoriously difficult to learn. Reading guides and specifications can only get you so far. Through my experience training my team in accessibility, I've discovered that learning accessibility testing is the easiest and most effective way of mastering accessibility. In this talk — and with the guidance of Bill and Ted — we'll explore the different ways of learning accessibility, and why focusing on accessibility testing works so well. You'll gain a method of benchmarking your work and progress, and find yourself building up accessibility experience that will last your career.

Modern JavaScript applications often pass automated accessibility checks with flying colors. Tools like Lighthouse, Axe, and CI pipelines give us green reports, and we feel confident shipping.

But what happens when real users interact with the application?
In this talk, we’ll explore why automated accessibility testing only catches a fraction of real issues. Through a live demo of a seemingly “accessible” JavaScript form (we will see on the Lighthouse and Axe DevTool no accessibility issues), we’ll uncover hidden problems that automated tools completely miss, such as broken keyboard navigation, silent dynamic UI updates, and modal dialogs that behave correctly visually but fail real users.

You’ll learn why accessibility is not just about passing automated checks, but about understanding how people actually interact with your JavaScript applications.

This session will include a live demo, practical examples, and concrete takeaways developers can apply immediately.