Accessibility is a big topic that can seem hard to get into because there is so much to learn! Being far from an accessibility expert myself, but doing my best to learn more about it, I interviewed Ashlee Boyer to talk about what accessibility is, why it matters, and how we can get started with it without feeling overwhelmed.
🔗 Links
✅ Follow Ashlee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshleeMBoyer
✅ The a11y Project: https://www.a11yproject.com
✅ Tatiana Mack’s article on prefers-reduced-motion: https://tatianamac.com/posts/prefers-reduced-motion
✅ WAI-ARIA authoring practices: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2
Spoon theory - https://happiful.com/what-is-the-spoon-theory/
⌚ Timestamps
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 01:10 - Introduction to Ashlee
- 03:52 - What does “improve accessibility” mean?
- 05:32 - The four categories of disabilities
- 07:18 - Visual disabilities
- 09:14 - The importance of semantic HTML
- 10:49 - Auditory disabilities
- 13:35 - Motor disabilities
- 16:08 - Cognitive disabilities
- 20:37 - ARIA roles
- 24:17 - You don’t have to learn it all at once
- 28:30 - Dark mode
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