When Compliance Breaks the UI: A Story of Mobile Accessibility

TLDR; What will you learn:
– Why focus on Accessibility?
– What’s EAA and why it is so messy?
– Examples and Lessons learned
– Discussing compliance of some common UI elements
– What to do when meeting one criteria breaks another?

I’ll try to add a permissible dosage of memes to make the leaning more comfortable.
TLDR; is over!

EU Parliament voted that all apps until 28 June 2025 should be compliant with Accessibility Act. (*+5 years transition *kind of*)

Many of you are already deep into this process, so in this talk, I’ll focus less on the basics and more on real-world examples and solutions, which I will back up by specific success criteria and legislation within the EAA.

Over the past year, I’ve been working intensively to bring my company’s legacy app into compliance. It’s been a deep dive into regulations, guidelines, and scattered resources – a true rabbit hole.

The lack of clear, practical guidance makes accessibility compliance both time-consuming and complex.

In this talk, I’ll walk you through our journey -highlighting the unexpected challenges, non-intuitive pitfalls, and hard-earned lessons along the way.

I’ll also share a surprising statistic that might help you advocate for accessibility when speaking to stakeholders or decision-makers.

My goal is to save you weeks of research by giving you practical tips and simple rules and solutions that can push your app ahead on the way toward compliance.

And maybe, just maybe, I can plant a small seed – one that encourages developers to think more often about people with disabilities, and to make every ticket, every commit, just a little more inclusive.