Accessibility Club Summit 2026

This session is explicitly aimed at all those who are new to accessibility and would like to familiarise themselves with the most basic concepts and terms of accessibility before the actual event. The presenters will guide you through the key principles and ensure that you have a better understanding of some of the day's topics. The session is designed to give you more confidence and understanding of the broad field of accessibility and allow for an initial exchange with like-minded enthusiasts.

This talk explores how everyday technology can function as cognitive accessibility infrastructure when intentionally configured. Instead of focusing on productivity tools or behavioural strategies, the session reframes executive function challenges as accessibility design problems.

Drawing on real-world system examples, the talk introduces three concepts for designing cognitive accessibility systems and considers how accessibility principles such as those found in WCAG can translate into practical accommodations in everyday environments.

• Accommodations: Configuring technology to reduce cognitive load and support executive function through automation triggers, environmental cues, and memory externalisation.
• Observability: Using behavioural signals already generated by devices, such as screen time data, smart home activity logs, and routine patterns, to make invisible cognitive effort visible and identify where systems are breaking down.
• Feedback Loops: Designing systems that learn from failure rather than hiding it, so accommodations can be monitored, adjusted, and improved over time without requiring constant manual effort.

This session offers a shift in perspective from “using tools better” to designing systems that actively support the way people think, remember, and act.

Hands on code examples on how to respect your users settings such as:

• Dark mode
• Reduced motion
• Increased contrast
• Text resize

You will learn

• Know which CSS techniques you can use in production today.
• Replace a lot of JavaScript with modern techniques.
• Progressive enhancement that has accessibility in mind.
• Basic accessibility and user understanding.

Target audience

Developers, QA and UI/UX will benefit most from this session but it is valuable to any role to know what is possible with great accessibility in mind.

In this presentation we will take a look at features offered by screen readers that enhance the output of semantic properties traditionally expressed by brief spoken announcements.

Topics covered in the talk include:

• sound cues as a passive form of digesting information;
• change in voice properties such as speed, pitch and volume;
• equivallent representation on a Braille display;
• existing implementations in the most popular screen readers;
• Customization by developers vs. letting the user be in charge;
• Attempts at standardizing different modalities through initiatives such as the CSS Speech proposal;

Participants will leave the presentation equipped with a new perspective of perceiving web content and ideas for considerations when designing accessible interfaces.

The ETSI has set October 23, 2026, as the planned publication date for the revised EN 301 549 standard. For accessibility professionals, the time to prepare is now. This presentation dives into EN 301 549 V4.1.0 to analyze the significant updates from V3.2.1, including:

• Real-Time Text (RTT): Revised and extended requirements in Clause 6.2 to include "Total Conversation" capabilities
• WCAG 2.2 Integration: Updated requirements in Clauses 9, 10, and 11 to align fully with the WCAG 2.2 recommendations
• Annex ZA: A new annex outlining the relationship between the standard and the essential requirements of Directive 2016/2102 (WAD)
• Annex ZB: A new annex mapping the standard to the essential requirements of Directive 2019/882 (EAA)
• Clause A.2: A new addition enabling the evaluation of specific ICT products and services for conformance with the EAA

Participants will walk away with practical technical tools and insights into the V4.1.0 changes, ensuring they are ready for the update.

The session shares how accessibility expertise was built organically within teams, how practices were embedded into a design system and agile processes, and how accessibility became part of everyday decision-making — from backlog and design to development and testing.

It also reflects on what worked, what could be done differently, and what it takes to build sustainable accessibility practices in complex product environments.

Most organisations don’t fail at accessibility because they lack good intentions. They fail because accessibility remains reactive, fragmented, and structurally unsupported.

This session explores how the Accessibility Maturity Model can help shift your organisation from ad-hoc compliance to embedded capability. Rather than focusing solely on technical fixes, we examine governance, procurement, culture, training, and accountability — the structural elements that determine whether accessibility becomes sustainable.

We’ll see common failure patterns, explore how to start assessing your current maturity, and how to design measurable, achievable progress. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how to move from firefighting to ownership — and how to make accessibility a more integral part of business as usual.

In previous years, it has often happened that larger groups got together on the evening of the first day in one or more pubs or restaurants in the city centre and continued the conversations there. We’ll try again this time to make a generous reservation and would be happy if you joined us to sit together, chat, and wind down the day.

Nowadays, more and more websites try to “gamify” their processes, experiences, and promotions.It’s fun, engaging, catches the eye, and involves the user — but nine times out of ten (often more), it’s not accessible. It is therefore far from being child’s play for users with disabilities. It can even prevent them from accessing the information, products, or services provided through these games.

The aim of this workshop is to work on the design of mini-games — from ergonomics to visual design, and possibly including technical considerations about what would be feasible from a development standpoint (without necessarily going through the full development process). The goal is to understand the complexity.

Participation in the workshop is only possible on site (no online attendance).

Moving from reactive accessibility to sustainable organisational capability requires more than audits and good intentions. It requires structure, ownership, and measurable progress.

This full-day, hands-on workshop provides a practical introduction to the Accessibility Maturity Model (AMM) and guides participants through the first steps of applying it within their own organisations.

We will explore the dimensions of maturity in depth, and look at how they connect together. We'll make a start to assess your current state, identify structural gaps, define meaningful proof points, and create realistic next-step actions. 

Through guided exercises, group discussions, and structured mapping activities, attendees will begin building their own maturity baseline and initial action plan. You'll leave with a better understanding of where your organisation is at and how to can start moving forward.

Rules are boring. Games are fun. Digital accessibility is full of complex criteria that are hard to teach and harder to remember. What if you could pack all that knowledge into a game? In this workshop, you won’t just play – you will create. You will design a board game that teaches accessibility in a fun way.


What you will do:

• Deconstruct: Take a core accessibility concept and turn it into a game mechanic.
• Build: Create a prototype using simple materials that we provide, and together we come up with an idea.
• Playtest: Test your game with peers. See if it’s fun. See if it works.
• Take Home: Leave with a playable prototype you can use with your team or in a workshop.


Who is this for? Everyone!

• ⁠"I have no idea about game design!" Don’t worry. We’ll guide you.
• ⁠"I can’t code!" No coding experience required — unless you prefer digital.
• "I’m an A11y pro / I’m a total beginner." Both works. The game is the medium, the topic is adaptable.

Participation in the workshop is only possible on site (no online attendance).

Meet Daniel who uses a screen reader, which is an assistive technology that reads out elements and text on screen when navigating programs, apps or websites. To be able to do this, it relies on well written semantic code, ALT-texts and clear labelling. 

Testing with a screen reader is vital to ensure you have a product that works for everyone and to be compliant. All operating systems nowadays have built in screen readers, for Android it is called TalkBack and for iOS it is VoiceOver. Everyone can do simple testing with their phone to find issues.

Part 1 - Screen reader testing (on mobile)

• What is a screen reader?
• How Daniel uses a screen reader.
• Screen reader basics.
• Master navigation and scrolling.
• Know what to listen for when testing.

Part 2 - Mobile testing

• How to test with an external keyboard (Demo)
• Using Switch control
• Re-size text
• Portrait/ Landscape mode
• Dark mode

We are living in a time of rapid digital transformation. With AI tools like Cursor and Figma Make, products can be built through vibe coding and shipped in no time. Speed is becoming the priority, and accessibility risks being treated as secondary.

This workshop introduces a lightweight guide to embedding accessibility essentials into LLM workflows so inclusive practices become part of the process by default. Participants will learn how to start vibe coding responsibly, integrate Figma designs into MCP tools like Cursor, structure prompts for more reliable and accessible results, and use features in Cursor and Figma Make to generate semantic, accessible websites.

Kitty's goal is simple: to enable more people to use AI to create products that are functional, beautiful, and accessible.

Participation in the workshop is only possible on site (no online attendance).

Many digital systems assume stable attention, reliable working memory, and consistent executive function. These assumptions create barriers for many neurodivergent people. This hands-on workshop reframes executive function challenges as cognitive accessibility design problems and explores how everyday technology can function as assistive infrastructure. Participants learn a framework with three layers:

• Accommodations — Configuring technology to reduce cognitive load through automation triggers, environmental cues, and memory externalisation.
• Observability — Using behavioural signals from devices such as screen time data and usage patterns to understand how systems function.
• Feedback loops — Designing systems that reveal failure points and adapt over time rather than relying on perfect user behaviour.

Participants will map cognitive barriers, redesign environments to carry cognitive load, and build simple cognitive accessibility systems using everyday technology.