Joseph McLarty, developer and accessibility advocate, talks to us about issues of accessibility and how we can create, and remove, invisible barriers that keep people from accessing the web. We talk about tools like screen readers, and how as developers, we can do simple things like use semantic tags that would help many people. We also touch on the legal issues on accessibility, and how we can learn more about the topic and ways we can create a more accessible web for all.
Show Links
- Americans With Disabilities Act
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
- Section 508
- Triforce
- WCAG
- W3C
- VoiceOver
- Web AIM
- NVDA (free, open source screen reader)
- Jaws (a screen reader)
- screen readers
Shoutouts
- A web for everyone (Joseph)
- VisionSim app (Joseph)
- #a11y twitter list (Joseph)
- Accessibility Toronto Meetup (Joseph)
- A Bad Lip Reading of the NFL (Saron)
- Vimium (chrome extension) (Saron)
- Introduction to Web Accesibility from Google (Saron)
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