Accessibility: Designing products that empower not just comply
Rob Haverty
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What if the key to your next breakthrough wasn’t a flashy feature, but removing a barrier? Inclusive design isn’t about compliance. It’s a mindset that unlocks innovation, drives growth and empowers people. With over 4.4 million Canadians living with a disability, accessibility isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s where great design begins. Dr. Dee Miller will show how designing with—and for—marginalized communities leads to smarter, more intuitive and universally usable products. Drawing on real-world examples and her work at Adobe, she’ll share practices that you can integrate into your own design process to create exceptional, accessible experiences that inspire and empower every user.
Rob Haverty
Rob works on the corporate Accessibility team at Adobe with a focus on product accessibility, public policy, standards and regulations. With more than 25 years of accessibility experience, Rob has been involved in many facets of accessibility including testing, design, product development, technical evangelism and policy and standards development. Rob has presented at conferences worldwide and has been involved in international accessibility projects such as the UNESCO Inclusive Classroom Project. Prior to coming to Adobe ,Rob was engaged in accessibility work at Microsoft. He is now managing the product managers on the Adobe corporate accessibility team. Previously his focus at Adobe was on PDF accessibility with the goal of making it easier to create accessible PDF documents.
