About this Event
About the Speaker
Shawn is Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Program Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and also leads education and communication activities promoting digital accessibility for people with disabilities. Before joining W3C, she developed and implemented strategies to optimize user interface design for usability and accessibility with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, education providers, and research centers. Shawn focuses her personal passion for accessibility on bringing together the needs of individuals and the goals of organizations in designing human-computer interfaces. Her book Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design, which is available free online, offers an approach for developing products that are more usable for everyone.
Shawn holds a research appointment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). She has a BSc in English with focus on technical writing and computer science, and an MSc in Digital Inclusion.
About the Topic
Accessibility is essential for some and useful for all — removing barriers for elderly and disabled people, benefits all users, and benefits organizations. From a process standpoint, Shawn will discuss how to integrate accessibility throughout the design process and explore how emerging technologies and current trends are shaping this space. This topic will be helpful for UX/UI designers and those interested in user-centered design, integrating accessibility into digital platforms to make them usable and enable full engagement in products and services.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node, 1/F, Hong Kong Productivity Council, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR)
HKD 0.00
