It is estimated that 1 in 5 people in the UK have a permanent disability. This number is twice as high when you include situational and temporary impairments.

What does this mean in numbers? If you deployed an application to a user group of 1000, around 200 of them will have a permanent disability and another 200 who consider themselves to have a temporary or situational impairment. That is around 400 users who will rely on various features in your application to make their experience better.

So… how can you make your Canvas Apps more accessible? It’s easier than you think!

Join me if you’d like to learn a few tricks on how to:

• Allow your users to switch themes dynamically,
• Changing font size in your apps dynamically,
• Making your apps multilingual in less than ONE MINUTE
• Text-to-speech in your apps and building your own screen reader,
• Do’s and don’t of your design,
• Leverage built-in Windows tools to help you with accessible design,
• Save user preferences for next time they launch the app! 🤩

And to make it even better… all of that can be achieved WITHOUT premium connectors!

#LetsIncludeAll #AccessibilityInAction

Speaker Bio:

Kristine Kolodziejski – Kristine Kolodziejski is a Principal Technical Consultant based in London, UK working across Power Platform, Azure and M365 stack. She is an active community contributor and speaker, constantly spamming Twitter and LinkedIn feeds with tips and hacks. Very passionate about UX/UI and accessibility. Tech geek by day, gamer by night. Automate everything. Even my blinds. Outside of work, she is a dog mum to a chow chow and loves gaming and playing drums and the piano. And eating chocolate!

Japhlet Nwamu (Cloud Advocate at Microsoft) – Japhlet Nwamu is passionate about empowering and supporting the next generation of developers on their journey in tech. As a Cloud Advocate, he focuses on upskilling students and educators with relations to Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador where he had the opportunity of guiding students across the globe by hosting sessions on different Microsoft technologies. Japhlet spends his weekend either hiking, playing football, watching movies or playing games.