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# How blind people navigate the world, on and offline


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 10:45–11:45 (60 min)
- **Room:** Workshop room M6 (40)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Description

The WCAG are our non-tactile guiding lines for web accessibility, but many of us working in web accessibility have never experienced the real world through low-vision eyes.
This talk is a collaboration between UX for hardware and front-end development to give you the best of both worlds: on and offline. Together we will explore how a white cane can take you from point A to be and how a screen reader works through your main user flow.
At the core of this talk will be the fact that blindness is a spectrum and therefore, no one-size-fits-all solution exists. However, if you understand how blind users interact with your website, it's going to be easier to make decisions on what will be useful to users in a particular flow, design in a usable way, and choose the right tags in your code.

## Speakers

### [Julia Undeutsch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@julia-undeutsch)

Dev & UX Accessibility Specialist | GDE
### [Laura Wissiak](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@laura-wissiak)

UX Researcher for Assisstive Tech


## Related talks at this congress

- [Empathy-Driven Development: The Key to Unlocking True Accessibility?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/321-empathy-driven) — Ante Tomić
- [In Focus: Elevating User Experience through Focus Management](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/57-in-focus-elevating) — Emma Dawson
- [Is the web ready for voice user interfaces?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/396-is-the-web-ready-for) — Tobias Münch
- [How to Survive with Dyslexia as a Developer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/211-how-to-survive-with) — Niklas Wünnemann