Larene Le Gassick
Inclusion Engineerlarene.dev
Larene is a software engineer contractor and consultant, building products to help raise the bar of workplace culture, diversity, and accessibility at every company in the world, and sharing her technical knowledge with the community as much as she can.
Larene studied robotics engineering and has since worked as a computer vision engineer, a programming teacher for kids, a lead tutor at UQ, and a senior consultant at ThoughtWorks. She has run the CTO School and Women Who Code Brisbane Meetups since 2015, supporting and building local talent in tech community.
Talks I've Given
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Full Stack Accessibility, and the Business Case for Inclusion
Featuring Larene Le Gassick
Hey, yep, Hi — it’s me again! Your friendly neighbourhood accessibility advocate.In this talk, I’m gonna take a break from aria-labels, alt-tags, and screen-reader demos.
Don't get me wrong, that stuff is still important and needs to be shared as widely as possible, but, you see, I seem to have...
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Full Stack Accessibility, and the Business Case for Inclusion
Featuring Larene Le Gassick
Hey, yep, Hi — it’s me again! Your friendly neighbourhood accessibility advocate.In this talk, I’m gonna take a break from aria-labels, alt-tags, and screen-reader demos.
Don't get me wrong, that stuff is still important and needs to be shared as widely as possible, but, you see, I seem to have...
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Full Stack Accessibility, and the Business Case for Inclusion
Featuring Larene Le Gassick
Hey, yep, Hi — it’s me again! Your friendly neighbourhood accessibility advocate.In this talk, I’m gonna take a break from aria-labels, alt-tags, and screen-reader demos.
Don't get me wrong, that stuff is still important and needs to be shared as widely as possible, but, you see, I seem to have...
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Data Driven Diversity
Featuring Larene Le Gassick
Since January, we have RSVPd “yes” 26,610 times to tech Meetups in Brisbane*. That’s a lot of pizza.
Every Monday, I run a script which posts in the #meetup channel of the Brisbane Developers Slack group. It's a simple Node script that calls the Meetup API, and lists every tech...
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Mentoring - a two way street
Featuring Larene Le Gassick
“That’s not good enough”
That was Larene’s response to when Damian told her “you’re doing a great job, keep doing what you’re doing”.
This talk is about the journey of a grizzled industry veteran and a young ambitious engineer thrown together in a...
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Creating Inclusive Apps with React Native
Featuring Larene Le Gassick
Creating inclusive and accessible apps is easy using React Native! Javascript developers can have a working app on their phone in less than an hour. Join me to see a working demo of how to plan, develop, and test for accessibility in the mobile space.
I will also be talking about resources and...
mobile