Experiencing Digital Accessibility
Experiencing Digital Accessibility: Understanding Barriers Beyond the Screen
Workshop
Tuesday 25 Nov
14:00 ‑ 17:00
Project Description
This interactive workshop invites participants to experience accessibility first-hand. Through a combination of demonstrations of assistive technologies, guided exercises and reflection, you will explore how people with visual impairments navigate digital interfaces. By completing real-world tasks in a simulated environment, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the potential barriers and learn how thoughtful design and coding can eliminate them. The session aims to foster empathy through experience, and to provide a starting point to create more inclusive digital products.
Registration Link
Davide Bevilacqua
Artist Bio
Davide Bevilacqua is a media artist and curator interested in network infrastructures and technological activism, as well as experimental presentation formats for artistic work and research. His current research deals with the environmental and social impact of internet technologies and platforms, looking critically at digital greenwashing and seeking escape routes from platform capitalism. Davide is currently manager & curator at servus.at, an association dealing with open source internet infrastructure and online art and culture (https://core.servus.at). He organizes the community festival AMRO Art Meets Radical Openness since 2018 (https://radical-openness.org) and the d*signweek (https://dsignweek.servus.at) since 2021. Davide teaches Sustainable IT at Interface Cultures and Labor at Visual Communication at University for Art and Design Linz. He is member of the association board of the Festival der Regionen (https://fdr.at/, of the program board the Festival LINZ FMR (https://linzfmr.at/).
Online Links
web: https://core.servus.at
masto: https://social.servus.at/@servus