Most product teams agree that accessibility matters. Far fewer have figured out how to make it happen. The gap between believing in accessible design and actually shipping accessible products is filled with ambiguity: unclear standards, competing priorities, and the persistent feeling that doing it properly requires specialist knowledge that nobody on the team has.
At Gathering #10, hosted at Teamleader in Ghent, Agnieszka Kania tackled this gap head-on. As a Product Designer at Teamleader, she has been through the process of embedding accessibility into a product team's daily practice. Her talk was not about the moral case for accessibility, which she rightly assumed the audience already accepted, but about the practical mechanics of getting it done.
What made the talk particularly valuable was its honesty about the messy middle. Accessibility is not a switch you flip. It is a capability you build incrementally, and Agnieszka walked through exactly what that incremental process looks like in a real product organization.
Original Presentation Slides
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