In the last couple of years there has been an increased interest in digital accessibility at EMBL-EBI and our parent organisation EMBL. In this webinar, we will share how we have been making the case for accessibility and how we have made the EMBL-EBI home page move to the top 1% for accessibility among the 1,000,000 most visited home pages in 2023. We will include practical tips on how to incorporate accessibility in the design and development process and share the lessons that we learned.

For more information please read this article written by Nikiforos Karamanis. 

About the speakers

Dr Nikiforos Karamanis is a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer at EMBL-EBI who enjoys spending time with users, developers and other stakeholders and helping them work together to achieve their goals using Lean UX methods. He is the Product Owner of EMBL’s Design System which provides components to build life science websites that follow best UX practices and meet accessibility standards. 

Carla Oliveira is a UX Designer currently working at EMBL-EBI in the Web development team. In her role, she applies her expertise to help design intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for scientific and bioinformatics applications. Carla's work involves collaborating with scientists, researchers, and developers to ensure that the complex data and tools provided by the institute are easily accessible and understandable to users. 

Who is this course for?

This webinar is open to everyone interested in learning about digital accessibility and its importance in the design of websites, including research websites.

This webinar has been developed as part of the EOSC Future project. EOSC Future is co-funded by the European Union Horizon Programme call INFRAEOSC-03-2020 - Grant Agreement Number 101017536.

Outcomes

By the end of the webinar you will be able to: 

• Describe the importance of digital accessibility
• Cite ways to incorporate the accessibility of a website

This webinar took place on 8 June 2023. Please click the 'Watch video' button to view the recording.