Accessibility Built In, Not Bolted On - Lunch & Learn with DevAlly
Want to avoid up to €1m in EAA fines?
The European Accessibility Act is in enforcement. Actually, we’re coming up on its year anniversary this June. So what? you may say. Well, enterprise buyers are now requiring WCAG compliance the same way they require SOC 2. And in Ireland, non-compliance carries criminal liability - up to €60k in fines and 18 months in prison. And no-one wants that.
Most software teams know they need to act. Very few know what it actually takes.
On May 21st this Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), DevAlly is hosting a Lunch and Learn at Dogpatch Labs with the people doing this work IRL. We promise no slides. No pitching or sales talk. Just a practical conversation - and of course an open floor for product questions.
That's what "built in, not bolted on" actually means in practice. Accessibility that gets retrofitted at the end of a product cycle costs ten times more to fix and takes ten times longer to get right. This session is about the how — how to use DevAlly to catch issues early in your build, give your engineering team a prioritised remediation backlog, and ship products that enterprise buyers can actually say yes to.
Who’s in the hotseat?
Cian Dowling Accessibility Lead @ Synthesia
Synthesia is one of Europe's most recognised AI video platforms, recently valued at $4bn+. Cian will speak from inside a live compliance journey - the accessibility issues found, a hard deadline, and what the remediation actually involved.
Bruno Walraven Head of Product @ DevAlly
What we see across product teams getting accessibility right and how compliance gets built into product development without halting delivery.
MC: Aisling Conlon-Mattu Head of Marketing @ DevAlly
This is for you if you are:
A Head of Product, CTO, or engineering lead at a B2B SaaS company
Building in Fintech, HR Tech, EdTech, or any sector selling to enterprise
Facing a VPAT request, an EAA compliance question, or an enterprise procurement checklist
A founder who wants to get this right before a customer, a regulator, or a law firm makes you
What’s the run of show?
12:30 - Arrival & Lunch
13:00 - Welcome
13:05 - Conversation
13:40 - Open floor
14:00 - Close & Networking
👾 Who we are
DevAlly is an AI powered digital accessibility compliance platform for product teams who ship quickly. Recently selected by 500 Global (backers of Intercom, Canva, Reddit, and Stripe) as part of its Ireland cohort scaling into the US. While our CEO is in San Francisco this week, we are marking GAAD at our European HQ with a conversation that is actually worth your time.
Spaces are limited. Request your seat → https://luma.com/tiubpw4a
Hosted by DevAlly at Dogpatch Labs, Dublin