

Dennie Declercq
Microsoft MVP || Developer & President DDSoft

Dennie is Microsoft MVP Developer Technologies and has experience in accessibility with Microsoft technologies. In daily life Dennie is president and developer at DDSoft, a nonprofit that connects IT to People who are less tech-savvy. Dennie invented technical solutions and systems to help people with disabilities to participate in their daily life. Thanks to his autism he's the right man at the right spot to contribute as a volunteer in function of people with disabilities.
Building for the (digital) Illiterate users
For more than a decade I am building in-house software in a center for people with cognitive disabilities. People who are not able to read and write, people who are not able to understand complex information aren't able to use a computer in a normal way.
Although those people don't use apps and computers in the same way as most people do, in a digital world it is important that they can perform some digital tasks if they want to participate in a inclusive society. This is the way to go to give them the same quality of life as most people have.
In this talk I teach you how I build software to include those people. I will guide you to principles of color-by-function, images and iconography, text simplification, text-to-speech and tangibility. You'll learn how to use those methodologies to build software that helps to include those wonderful people with cognitive disabilities.
