Friday Hacks #261, September 6: On Accessibility Testing and Migrating Codebases to the Web
Posted on by Chua Jun Yu
Date/Time: Friday, September 6 at 7:00pm SGT
Venue: Seminar Room 3, COM1-02-12, NUS
Sign-up Link: Sign-up here
Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served!
1) Accessibility Testing with Purple A11y
Discover how GovTech developers champion digital inclusivity and empower users using Purple A11y, an open-source automated web accessibility testing tool. Learn to leverage this customisable tool to scan sites for accessibility issues, enabling you to find and fix problems, and improve access for persons with disabilities (PWDs) to digital services. Developed by GovTech’s Accessibility (A11y) team, Purple A11y supports software development teams building inclusive products from the outset.
Speaker Profile 🎙️
Zui Young is a DevOps and Quality Engineer at GovTech Singapore. He believes in the power of technology to improve people’s lives. He is passionate about DevOps, cybersecurity and e-accessibilty domains. He has a wide experience in developing software, from building monolith to serverless architechture applications.
2) AutoCAD’s Journey to the Web
This talk will describe how AutoCAD’s legacy code base was migrated to the Web using Emscripten and WebAssembly. Attendees can expect to hear about the various challenges that come with this migration and the various approaches taken to overcome them.
Speaker Profile 🎙️
Kevin Cheung is a developer with the AutoCAD team and is passionate about generating innovative solutions through the use of cutting-edge technologies. He is currently working on Machine Learning and WebAssembly.
👋 See you there!