Workshop
Sep 12
16:30
50 min
Creator 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.
Clare Davidson leads the Product Inclusion & Equity strategy at Sky, where she works across design, product, and engineering to embed accessibility from the very start of the development process. Clare ensures that accessibility is treated not as a compliance checkbox, but as a core design principle.
She champions inclusive design through co-creation with disabled users, shaping everything from accessibility education, design systems and co-designing with diverse user groups as part of the existing user centred design process, empowering designers to become inclusive designers. Her approach is grounded in empathy alongside regulation, and the belief that inclusive products are simply better products.
