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Accessible Frontend Patterns

Manuel Matuzović
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Workshop includes:

  • 🍵 Tea, coffee, snacks and drinks during the whole day
  • 🥪 Lunch
  • 📒 Paper and pen/pencil

Full-day workshop • Thursday, September 11, 2025.
To build an accessible website, we need to understand HTML well. When our designs and patterns get more complex and dynamic, being good at HTML is not enough. We need extensive knowledge about UX, ARIA, assistive technology, and tools.

In this workshop with Manuel Matuzović, front-end developer, consultant, and book author, you will learn how to build and test complex accessible components like accordions, modals, tabs, or tables.

Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:

  • Inspiring & Inclusive

    A full day of teaching in a friendly, inclusive group

  • Interactive & Practical

    Plenty of time for practice & feedback

  • Hands-on exercises

    With 1:1 reviews by Manuel

  • Cooperate

    Learn from your teacher and other attendees

  • Dedicated Q&A time

    To ask all your questions

  • Digital Smashing Certificate

    A well-deserved reward for your work

€599 .00 Register for this workshop → Get a single workshop, or bundle with a conference.

🎪  Save up to 25% on this workshop with a Smashing Membership.

We’ll Cover

  • How to build accessible, dynamic components like accordions, modals, or tabs
  • The foundation of keyboard accessibility.
  • How to handle errors in forms.
  • What it takes to build accessible tables.
  • ARIA and how to use it.
  • How to communicate DOM changes to screen readers.
  • How to manage focus.
  • Which testing tools are available and most commonly used.
  • How to assess the accessibility of a component or page.
  • How to use the keyboard to discover accessibility bugs.
  • Screen reader basics and how to use them for accessibility testing, both on desktop and mobile devices.

Who is this workshop for?

This full-day workshop is for web developers (frontend and backend) and anyone with a good knowledge of HTML and CSS. After attending this workshop, you’ll understand what it takes to build and test common frontend patterns accessibly. You’ll walk away with an overview of the required standards, techniques, tools, and resources to develop inclusive websites.

What Hardware/software Do I Need To Bring?

All you need for this workshop is your laptop, motivation and curiosity.

About Manuel Matuzović

Manuel Matuzović is a frontend developer who’s passionate about HTML and CSS. He’s a freelance consultant, accessibility auditor, teacher, and book author who also writes about accessibility, HTML, and CSS on his personal blog matuzo.at and htmhell.dev.

Time & Location

This full-day workshop will take place the day after SmashingConf. The workshop will be running from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM on Thursday, September 11.

Schedule for Thursday, September 11

9:00 AM – Doors open, Registration
9:30 AM – Introduction & Kick-off
11:00 AM – Coffee Break
1:00 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Afternoon Session
3:30 PM – Coffee Break
5:30 PM – The End

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€599 .00 Register for this workshop → Get a single workshop, or bundle with a conference.

🎪  Save up to 25% on this workshop with a Smashing Membership.