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Accessibility from Code to Compliance

Eva Ferreira
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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 10, 2026.
Building accessible interfaces is easier said than done. But once the work is done, the real challenge is keeping the bar high while the level of effort stays low, as products grow, teams scale, and features ship continuously.

In this workshop, you will learn how to make accessibility part of your everyday development workflows. Learn practical accessibility workflows, testing techniques, and tooling to confidently build and maintain inclusive interfaces at scale.

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 Eva

  • 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

We will cover manual and automated accessibility testing, learn how to integrate Axe into a CI/CD pipeline to detect accessibility regressions on every new commit, and explore how audits can translate into enterprise-ready VPATs, backed by real data, that demonstrate both compliance and commitment.

You will leave with practical workflows, real-world testing techniques, and ready-to-use tooling to help you catch issues early, reduce risk over time, and ship accessible interfaces with confidence.

€495.00 Excl. 19% VAT Register for this workshop → Get a single workshop, or bundle with a conference.

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

What We Will Cover

Testing

  • Perform manual accessibility testing to identify user-facing issues
  • Validate interfaces using keyboard navigation and assistive technologies
  • Use automated testing tools and understand their results

Development Workflows

  • Integrate Axe into CI/CD pipelines to detect regressions on every commit
  • Define and enforce accessibility pass/fail criteria in automated tests
  • Build sustainable workflows that prevent regressions as codebases evolve
  • Define guidelines for reviewing and validating AI-generated code for accessibility

Compliance and Communication

  • Triage accessibility findings and turn them into actionable engineering tasks
  • Create and maintain enterprise-ready VPATs
  • Communicate accessibility requirements, risks and outcomes across teams

After the workshop, you’ll be able to:

  • Confidently integrate accessibility into everyday development workflows
  • Combine manual and automated testing without slowing teams down
  • Use tools like Axe effectively, including in CI/CD pipelines
  • Set up sustainable accessibility practices that scale with products and teams

Who is this workshop for?

This full-day workshop is for web developers (frontend and backend) and quality engineers who want practical, engineer-centric approaches to accessibility testing, CI/CD automation, and compliance documentation.

You will walk away with hands-on experience, ready-to-use examples and workflows, and immediately useful techniques to embed accessibility into your development lifecycle.

About Eva Ferreira

Eva Ferreira is a lead Software Engineer with a passion for teaching. Based in Argentina, she blends creativity and engineering to craft accessible, user-centered digital products. She mentors developers, shares knowledge through talks and workshops worldwide, and advocates for accessibility and inclusive technology.

Time & Location

This full-day workshop will take place the day after SmashingConf. The workshop will be running from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM on Thursday, September 10.

Schedule for Thursday, September 10

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
5:00 PM – The End

Save EUR 100 when signing up for the conference and a workshop!

€495.00 Excl. 19% VAT Register for this workshop → Get a single workshop, or bundle with a conference.

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