Manjula Dube

Empathy-driven development empowers developers to create software that truly understands and serves users' needs. This talk explores practical techniques for integrating empathy into the development process, leading to more intuitive, user-friendly applications. Learn how cultivating empathy can foster collaboration, improve code quality, and ultimately enhance user satisfaction. Join us to unlock the transformative potential of empathy in your development journey.

With the growing community and great tutorials, it's fairly easy nowadays to start building web applications with React. However, the vital aspect of accessibility is often missing which leads to web applications creating exclusions. Nothing in React prevents us from building accessible web experiences, but we need to learn to harness its power in the right way while dealing with some unique challenges caused creating web pages with JavaScript. This talk will focus on how to solve these issues in the context of React. It'll also emphasis why it is important to build accessible web apps. In the end, I will also share some cool stuff and tools in order to make your web app more accessible.