Aurajoki Overflow: Accessibility - Sponsored by Congrid

Welcome to the Aurajoki Overflow January meetup!

The January meetup is sponsored and made possible by Congrid.

In this month's meetup we will be discussing Accessibility and the different nooks and crannies of creating software usable by everyone.

Registration opens on this page on Monday 02.01.

Schedule:

18:00 Doors Open / Welcome! Bewerages and snacks!
18:10 Introduction to the meetup and a word from our sponsor Congrid
18:15 Eeva-Jonna Panula: Android, Animations and Reduced motion
19:00 Break with refreshments, snacks and food
19:15 Marianna Österlund: Why content designers and UI/UX-designers should work together
20:00 Hanging out, Lightning Talks, Relaxing
22:00 -> Afterbeers @ SKAAL

Talks:

Eeva-Jonna Panula: Android, Animations and Reduced motion

Not everyone enjoys animations. Different types of movement and animations can be distracting or cause symptoms such as nausea or dizziness. I'm one of those who suffer from these - things like parallax scrolling make me feel sick. And the way that I (and so many others) survive in the digital world filled with animations and movement is the operation system level setting for reducing animations.

In this talk, I'll discuss this theme from the perspective of creating inclusive native Android apps. After listening to this talk, you'll know about the problems that animations might cause for some people. You'll also learn what you need to do to respect that setting in native Android apps.

Marianna Österlund: Why Content Designers and UI/UX-designers should work together

Accessibility goes beyond code and that is the key in this talk. What is the point in technically accessible services if the contents and structures are hard to understand? Marianna lets you into a real-life business case which proves that content design and UI/UX design should be done in collaboration. And who knows! It might even be a gamechanger and take your service’s usability to the next level.