Alessandro D'Angelo
Alessandro has been passionate about mobile development and accessibility since his university days. He explored accessibility in video games for users with motion impairments as part of his thesis project.
Now at NTT DATA, he serves as an Android and Flutter developer with a keen eye on accessibility. This commitment began with his first project at the company and in his life — a widely used Italian Government app.
Alessandro believes that accessibility should be a more prominent topic in apps, especially in banking and everyday applications. Do you think people with disabilities don't need money to live? Don't they need to send bank transfers to pay the rent?
This is being inclusive: making things easier for everyone!
Session
Around 15 percent of the population lives with disabilities, they are the world’s largest minority. Nowadays, is not only a plus to create good and universal products for everyone, its also a must, in fact, starting from June 2021 as the European Law states, Mobile government Applications should be accessible, and from June 2025 the ones created by private companies.
In this speech, you will learn that accessibility in Flutter is as good as in Native, and it is very easy to create AA-grade accessible apps. The keyword is: Keep it simple!
For this purpose, I will cover the following topics:
- Design, The step before the Development: Why the collaboration between the design team and you is important to build accessible Apps with Flutter.
- The Flutter Approach to Accessibility
- The most important things to keep in mind when developing Accessible Apps with Flutter and the benefits of using the correct development strategies and mindset more than just following documentation.
- How to use and not to Widgets and accessibility Methods
- How to test Accessibility and what you can test.
This talk is for Flutter developers of any seniority who are interested in learning how to build better Apps for everyone. It will help junior developers to start thinking in an accessible way and Senior or management roles who want to approach Flutter in projects that require accessibility but are not sure about the potentialities of this framework.
The speech will be approximately 40 minutes long, fun guaranteed!