Maia Miller: Web accessibility

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Maia Miller, BA Honours, is the Accessibility Services Manager at Catalyst IT, where she works with clients and our own teams to train them in web accessibility practices in all stages of the software development life cycle and content creation via various training programmes, peer reviews, and audits.
In this episode we talk about the importance of web accessibility, how you can make media content available accessibly so that it's not just text that you can add to your portfolio. We also talk about Maia's career path and how she got into tech with a bachelor's degree in humanities.
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Resources

• Catalyst's accessibility services
• Accessibility statement for Mahara
• WCAG 2.0
• WCAG 2.1
• Webaim colour contrast checker
• International Association of Accessibility Professionals

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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. What does an Accessibility Services Manager do? (00:01:13)

3. How did you get into tech? (00:02:13)

4. Being in tech without being a heavily technical person (00:07:17)

5. What is web accessibility? (00:08:05)

6. WCAG and country-specific implementations (00:09:39)

7. What can an organisation do in regards to web accessibility? (00:13:05)

8. How can we do accessibility as software team? (00:14:29)

9. What tips can you give learning designers? (00:20:20)

10. What is your top tip for porfolio authors? (00:24:42)

11. How do you make multimedia content accessible? (00:27:47)