For a long time, HTML gave us all the semantics & other goodies we
needed to make things work properly on the web. Then we started
inventing new UI components, & now we use ARIA & Javascript to
polyfill the missing bits. As we move towards a future of Web
Components, the time has come to invent another solution that will let
us encapsulate accessibility in the shadow DOM - & its called the
Accessibility Object Model (AOM). Join us for an evening with presenter & accessibility engineer Lonie Watson as she leads us on a journey through accessibility mechanics.
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Presenter Bio
Lonie Watson began using the internet in 1993, turned it into a career in 1997, & (despite losing her eyesight along the way), shes been enjoying herself thoroughly ever since.

Lonie is Director of Developer Communications at The Paciello Group (TPG), & a member of the W3C Advisory Board. She is also co-chair of the W3C Web Platform Working Group, where she is responsible for many specifications including IndexedDB, Push API, Pointer Lock API, Gamepad API, ARIA in HTML, & the HTML Accessibility API Mapppings (AAM).

Lonie contributes to projects like the Inclusive Design Principles, & co-organises the Inclusive Design 24 #ID24 conference with friends from TPG. She is a mentor for young people learning programming with Microsofts Project Torino, & was technical editor for Laura Kalbags book Accessibility For Everyone.

Lonie is often found at conferences, talking about web standards, accessibility mechanics, & pushing the boundaries of inclusive design (with existing technologies like SVG, HTML, ARIA, & JavaScript, as well as new technologies like AI & WebVR). She has also written about these things for Smashing magazine, SitePoint.com, & Net magazine, as well as on her own site Tink.UK.

In her spare time, Lonie likes reading, cooking, drinking tequila, & dancing (although not necessarily in that order)!