Conference sessionDay 3 (14 November, 2025)10:35-11:00 EET

Accessible by Design: Ethics as a Feature, Not a Fix

The talk explores what happens when smart, beautiful, AI-powered interfaces aren’t built with everyone in mind. As we push design forward, we have to ask – who gets left behind? You’ll learn how to embed accessibility into your design system from the start, so it’s not an afterthought patch, but a natural part of every user experience. Whether you’re working on data visualizations, AI-driven UIs, or complex design patterns, you’ll leave with insights to help ensure your work serves more people, not fewer.

Who It’s For:

  • UX/UI designers tackling complex interfaces or AI features.
  • Design system creators looking to bake in inclusion from the start.
  • Developers working on dynamic UIs or rich visualizations.
  • Product teams shaping ethical and inclusive digital experiences.

Key Takeaways:

  • Accessibility is a design mindset – not a last-minute fix.
  • Visual Intelligence must account for perceptual and cognitive diversity.
  • Scalable accessibility starts with your design system.
  • AI can include or exclude – the difference is how we use it.
  • Ethical, intelligent design means designing for everyone.
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Ангел Петров

Ангел Петров

Chief Quality Officer at Access Drum

Angel is a creative individual with a deep passion for problem solving. He brings over two decades’ burden of development and management extensive, methodical and honest quality assurance trolling, which have toughened so much that he doesn’t care about the correctness of stating: “Your baby is ugly.” And he really does not care if it is ugly, he cares more about the steps to reproduce and maybe throw a couple of facelift suggestions along the way.

So the next time you see a sign saying “Beware of the troll,” keep calm and keep in mind it is not him, it’s just his quality report. And sometimes Angel have gone wild and beyond by dabbling in UX, coaching Design Thinking, facilitating workshops, and even conducting Quality and Design Basics training, documenting just about everything along the way: plans, tests, bugs, mental disorders… (you have reached your 600 char limit).