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DESCRIPTION:In the last couple of years there has been an increased interes
 t in digital accessibility at EMBL-EBI and our parent organisation EMBL. I
 n this webinar\, we will share how we have been making the case for access
 ibility and how we have made the EMBL-EBI home page move to the top 1% for
  accessibility among the 1\,000\,000 most visited home pages in 2023. We w
 ill include practical tips on how to incorporate accessibility in the desi
 gn and development process and share the lessons that we learned.\n\nFor m
 ore information please read this [article](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/
 improving-accessibility-embl-ebi-website-nikiforos-karamanis/) written by 
 Nikiforos Karamanis. \n\n**About the speakers**\n\nDr Nikiforos Karamanis
  is a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer at EMBL-EBI who enjoys spending
  time with users\, developers and other stakeholders and helping them work
  together to achieve their goals using Lean UX methods. He is the Product 
 Owner of EMBL’s Design System which provides components to build life sc
 ience websites that follow best UX practices and meet accessibility standa
 rds. \n\nCarla Oliveira is a UX Designer currently working at EMBL-EBI in
  the Web development team. In her role\, she applies her expertise to help
  design intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for scientific and bioinfor
 matics applications. Carla's work involves collaborating with scientists\,
  researchers\, and developers to ensure that the complex data and tools pr
 ovided by the institute are easily accessible and understandable to users.
  
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SUMMARY:Improving the accessibility of the EMBL-EBI website: background\, p
 rocess\, and lessons
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/events/web-accessibility
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