Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 8:00am PDT | 4:00pm BST
The European Accessibility Act (EAA), a law that defines accessibility requirements, takes effect on 28 June 2025. According to the EU, the EAA will make life easier for the roughly 87 million people living with disabilities–almost one in five Europeans. Seen by many as a landmark law, the time to meet compliance is running out.
Join Rachael Yomtoob, Product Owner - axe DevTools Mobile, at Deque, and Sauce Labs Principal Technical Advisor, Marcus Merrell, as well as Senior Director, Developer Marketing, Jason Baum as they discuss the implications of the EAA and how businesses around the globe (who serve customers in the EU) are creating digital products and services that are accessible.
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Rachael discovered her passion for accessibility while working on a project team at the University of Michigan that developed an Android application to provide indoor navigation for people with visual disabilities. She joined the mobile team at Deque in 2018 as a web developer where she got to learn about both mobile and web accessibility before transitioning to product owner for axe DevTools Mobile.
Aside from Rachel’s passion for digital accessibility, she’s a proud cat parent to three fur babies and enjoys spending their free time at hot yoga classes or diamond painting.
As a Principal Technical Advisor at Sauce Labs, Marcus Merrell uses experience from 20+ years in test to build robust, customer-centric solutions around test automation, release management, and the entire SDLC. He started using Selenium/WebDriver in 2007, contributes to the Selenium project, and chairs the Selenium Conference Organizing Committee.
Jason Baum has been building communities for the past 18 years. He is currently the senior director of DevRel and marketing at Sauce Labs, a cloud-hosted, web and mobile application automated testing platform. He’s also the host of Test Case Scenario podcast and YouTube show.
Prior to Sauce Labs, he was the director of customer experience & community, and host of the award-winning Humans of DevOps Podcast, for the DevOps Institute. Jason is also a frequent host of the AI Time Journal and Retail Adventures podcasts. Jason has been a jack of all trades within the community space with experience in operations, subscription management, membership engagement, chapter relations, marketing, event planning, volunteer recruitment, engagement, and board relationship management. In his free time, Jason loves traveling and spending time at the pool or the beach with his wife and daughter.