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Spotting Accessibility Issues Early

Stéphanie Walter
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Stéphanie Walter
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Workshop includes:

  • 🔍 How to spot common accessibility issues in mockups
  • 📄 Examples of accessibility documentation
  • 🧰 Resources to put it into practice

Free Workshop, 1h + Q&A • Tue, September 1, 2026
10:00 – 11:00 AM PDT • 19:00 – 20:00 CEST • Check your time zone ⏰

Accessibility is not only a developer problem, it’s team work! Many issues can already be spotted, prevented, and documented during the design phase.

If you’re a designer or a developer, join Stephanie Walter for this free session and learn how to review your mockups for common accessibility issues before handing off to dev.

Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:

  • Interactive live session

    A free, 1h-long live session

  • Catch issues early

    Before they reach the dev phase

  • Expert perspective

    From a leading accessibility designer

  • Dedicated Q&A time

    To ask all your questions!

Free! Register for this workshop → 1 × 1h live session + Q&A. September 1.
With all video recordings & slides. Get a ticket.


Many accessibility issues are born in the design phase; and spotting them in your mockups, before dev starts, is far less costly than fixing them in code. In this free one-hour webinar, Stephanie Walter will walk you through how to review your mockups for the most common accessibility problems. Bring your questions, there’s dedicated Q&A time at the end.

You’ll walk away with:

  • A practical review process: how to systematically check your mockups for the most common accessibility problems
  • Real documentation examples: templates and patterns for documenting accessibility decisions so developers have everything they need
  • Resources to keep going: tools and references to help you put this into practice straight away

This free session is a taster for Accessibility for Designers — Stéphanie’s full 4-session workshop. You’ll go from the ideas introduced here to designing and documenting fully accessible products: visual design, interactions, navigation, content availability and everything in between, with hands-on exercises and real-world examples from complex products.

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Who Is This For

This session is for designers and developers who want to learn how to catch accessibility issues earlier in the process, during the design phase, not after code is already written.

About Stephanie

Stephanie Walter is a UX designer and researcher specializing in accessibility, UX research, and mobile design. She speaks at international conferences, writes extensively about accessibility and inclusive design, and is passionate about making the web work for everyone, starting at the design stage.

Free! Register for this workshop → 1 × 1h live session + Q&A. September 1.
With all video recordings & slides. Get a ticket.

What hardware/software do you need?

To view the session, please install the Zoom client for Meetings, which is available for all the main OSs. It may take a little time to download and install, so please grab it ahead of time if you can.

Schedule

18:45 CEST
Virtual doors open, registration, chat and introductions.

19:00 – 20:00 CEST
How to catch accessibility issues in your mockups, before development starts.

20:00 – 20:30 CEST
Q&A with Stephanie.

Free! Register for this workshop → 1 × 1h live session + Q&A. September 1.
With all video recordings & slides. Get a ticket.