Workshop
Sep 12
16:30
50 min
Workshop Room
About this Session
Inclusive design is no longer a nice-to-have, it's a product differentiator. In this hands-on, 30-minute session, you'll collaborate with fellow design leaders to solve a timely challenge: a fictional product team must launch a new feature under European Accessibility Act (EAA) pressure. Your goal? Transform regulatory obligation into inclusive innovation.
Working in small groups, you’ll:
Identify an opportunity within your product experience that you know could be improved for your customers with disabilities?
Brainstorm how to apply co-design with people with disabilities
Craft a compelling, 3-sentence pitch to persuade internal stakeholders
This is more than an exercise, it’s a testbed for skills you can take back to your team. You’ll leave with a repeatable framework for integrating accessibility earlier in the design process, elevating user outcomes, and driving product decisions that align with regulatory shifts and inclusive values.
Amber is a CPACC certified Accessibility Strategist with a background in UX and Inclusive Design for Digital Media. Amber combines these skills along with a deep understanding of various assistive technologies to coach colleagues and Fable’s customers on how to include people with disabilities in product development. Outside of Fable, Amber is currently co-lead of the Canada Accessibility Network (CAN)'s Research, Design and Innovation community of practice, and sits on both the advisory and governing councils for CAN.