The Nordic Accessibility Community Group brings together participants from across the Nordic region to exchange knowledge, discuss accessibility challenges, and collaborate on improving digital inclusion. The group provides a neutral space for sharing practical experience, comparing approaches across countries, and learning from the diverse perspectives of people working with accessibility in different roles and sectors.
People may join as representatives of a company or organisation, but participation must stay focused on supporting the group’s discussions and activities. Per the CG Process, advertising, product promotion, and sales-driven contributions are not allowed.
Note: Community Groups are proposed and run by the community. Although W3C hosts these
conversations, the groups do not necessarily represent the views of the W3C Membership or staff.
Chairs, when logged in, may publish draft and final reports. Please see report requirements.
Here you can find a list of speakers to contact for talks on accessibility.
If you want to be added to this list, please leave a comment or send an email to erik@axesslab.com and we will add you to the list. Please note that this information is publicly available.
Name
Topic
Location / remote
Speaker fee (if applicable)
Contact information + Additional info
First name Last name
Introduction to accessibility, role-specific talks, etc.
City X or remote
Free for non-profit, contact for other organisations
• Introduction to accessibility • Implementing accessibility practices in an organization (change management) • Training in specific areas such as design (colors, interaction patterns, etc.) or development (WAI-aria, semantics, etc.) • Understanding of WCAG success criteria
Copenhagen or online are preferred, other places can be discussed.
• Accessibility for marketing professionals, UX, and content designers • Embedding accessibility into product development • Building communities of accessibility champions • Automated accessibility testing • Building a business case for accessibility • Legal requirements in EU
Copenhagen, Helsinki, or online. Other places can be discussed. Languages: Finnish, English
I do talks on disability, web accessibility, and WCAG, and I do workshops on evaluating and fixing web accessibility. I’d like to do more talks on why we should stop talking about the formalities of “web accessibility” (no, really) and focus on inclusive design.
This week we met to review the findings of the 4 workgroups that had investigated the following:
How can we ensure meetups/networking opportunities?
How can we get relevant schools/universities to teach accessibility?
How can we host/share knowledge and resources within our group?
How can we identify relevant research that we want to conduct?
It was wonderful to hear all the different ideas! Then we proceeded to find people who would like to continue the work and discussions for each group.
There is still room for people passionate about discussing networking, or education, or knowledge-sharing, and we can always use more brains involved. So my urge to you is to reach out to the coordinator of a group that you would like to be invited to. You can also find a channel for each group in our Slack space.
I want to stress once again that joining is not a commitment to anything but only means you will receive invitations for the discussions for the next 6 months – or until you opt-out.
Our next big meeting as a Community Group will be in 6 months’ time. See you then!
Update: The time of the workshop meeting is now changed from “CEST” to “CET”. We apologize for any confusion around the time of the invitation.
It has now been a few weeks since our last gathering, and I am here with some news.
At the workshop, we agreed to set up some platform for easing communication within the group. As per Jean-Yves Moyen’s suggestion, we have decided to use the official W3C Community on Slack. Here is how you join:
September 22nd marked our first proper session as a group. Thank you to all who joined us!
The intent of the workshop was to get a list of prioritized focus areas to work on. The meeting had 15 attendants participating in a shared workshop document (Word docx).
Outcome
The outcome of the document was a list of suggestions for what the group could focus on in the coming year. We grouped these suggestions under the following categories:
Meetups and networking
Providing feedback on standards and legislation
Co-creating/sharing knowledge and resources
Accessibility on universities’ curriculum
Research
Other
For the next meeting, we can open a discussion about the most prioritized individual activities that were suggested.
Chairs
Jean-Yves Moyen & Erik Gustafsson have agreed to join as Chairs, which brings us to a total of 5 Chairs in the group. If anyone else would like to join, reach out to us.
Internal communication
We agreed to set up a shared Slack space to ease communication and social interactions in the group. More to follow on this.
The Nordic Accessibility Community Group serves as an open forum to discuss challenges, network with accessibility professionals, and promote the importance of inclusive design in the Nordic countries.
This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2022-02-03 by Tobias Christian Jensen. The following people supported its creation: Tobias Christian Jensen, Kristian Kristoffersen, Daniel Dersén, Inka Taagehøj, and Jean-Yves Moyen.
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