Maxwell Ivey
Maxwell Ivey The Blind Blogger" is a digital accessibility consultant and speaker with nearly two decades of daily, hands-on experience navigating the web with JAWS and VoiceOver. He runs The Accessibility Advantage, writes the Barrier Free Bytes column for PHP Architect, and hosts two podcasts. He speaks on accessibility, inclusive content, and building genuine partnerships between developers, designers, and disabled users.
Montreal 2027 sessions
Accessibility as a Partnership, Not a Punishment
English session - Beginner
Accessibility work too often gets framed as a compliance checklist handed down after the fact something bolted on, resented, and rushed. This talk makes the case for a different model: accessibility as an ongoing partnership between developers, designers, and the disabled users who actually rely on the result. Drawing on nearly two decades as a daily screen reader user working alongside dev and design teams, I'll walk through what that partnershi
Screen Reader Roulette: A Live Look at Where Your Site Actua
English session - Beginner
Most accessibility talks describe screen reader problems in the abstract. This one doesn't. I've navigated the web exclusively with JAWS and VoiceOver for almost two decades, and in this session I'll pull up real, common patterns a modal dialog, an infinite-scroll feed, a form throwing inline validation errors, a single-page app route change and navigate them live, out loud, in front of the room. You'll hear exactly what breaks, why it breaks, an
