Hidde is a front-end, design systems and web accessibility specialist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is excited about web standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and accessibility. Hidde writes about these things and more on hidde.blog. In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing applications of our decade. For hire as a speaker.
Components have revolutionised the way we work, as they allow us to invent wheels only once. Executed well, they can save all of the team time. This provides an opportunity for broadening the impact of accessibility, too. This practical talk will go into some strategies for baking accessibility into components, so that more people can use them.
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