AI & ML · Design
AI assistants are everywhere. Let's make them accessible — with Fanny Demey
Hosted by GDG Edinburgh
Wednesday 25 November 2026 · 6:30pm · Old College, The University of Edinburgh · hosted by GDG Edinburgh
- When
- Wednesday 25 November 2026
- 6:30pm – 8:00pm
- Where
- Old College, The University of Edinburgh
- Teaching Room 7, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL · map
- Price
- free
- via Eventbrite
about this room
A talk on making chatbots and agent features usable with a screen reader. Streamed answers, long structured replies, hidden agent steps and generated UI components (A2UI, for example) break most of what accessibility practice was built for: with TalkBack a streamed reply can arrive as fragments or as silence, and the Stop button gets lost.
Fanny Demey, a freelance mobile developer, Google Developer Expert and author of a book on Android accessibility, walks through practical fixes and leaves you with a checklist. She has built apps used mostly by blind and low-vision users. Hosted by GDG Edinburgh in Teaching Room 7, Old College, 18:30 to 20:00.
Free. Register on Eventbrite; the Meetup page points there.
the European Accessibility Act makes this a legal requirement for many digital services, and almost nobody is talking about it for LLM interfaces yet. Best for mobile and front-end developers shipping chat or agent features.
Fanny Demey · Freelance mobile developer, accessibility expert and Google Developer Expert
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