Captchas and other gotchas: Make sure your security measures are accessible

Session Category Theming, Design, & Usability Audience All Attendees

Security measures and accessibility don’t always play nice. Captchas, timed logins, alert pop-ups, gated content, and modals are often used for security, but not all users and assistive technology can get their users past the barriers.
We’ll look at practical and straightforward ways to implement open-source solutions that are both secure and accessible, keeping folks from abandoning ship.

Objectives

  • You will learn how some security efforts can be barriers to those who use assistive technology
  • Learn how different user agents interact with digital assets
  • You will walk away with accessible solutions to generally inaccessible 3rd party options

We’ll look at practical and straightforward ways to implement solutions that are open source, secure and accessible, keeping folks from abandoning your digital assets.
 

About the Speaker

AmyJune Hineline

Certification Community Architect at The Linux Foundation

AmyJune currently works with the Linux Foundation as their Certification Community Architect. She is responsible for supporting the Certification team’s efforts in building and maintaining exams and related documentation for exam products in the Linux Foundation’s certification portfolio.

She is a Drupal Mentor Coordinator, DrupalCamp organizer (Florida DrupalCamp, DrupalCamp Asheville, and MidCamp), and a CWG Community Health Team member. She serves on the board of the Colorado Drupal Association.

Her ongoing experience as a hospice nurse keeps her in touch with many end-users' challenges. In her continued efforts to make a difference, she helps organize A11yTalks, an online meetup that advocates all things accessibility - one of the core components of building an inclusive web.

AmyJune helps communities discover how they can contribute and belong in more ways than code. Her ability to eat with her elbows on the table has wowed the world.