Episode 10 - Accessibility in Web Applications with Graham Ritchie

20minJS

In this episode I discuss with Graham what accessibility is and how it impacts the web industry. The types of problems that accessibility tries to solve and how big of an impact it could have in your application if you were to actually pay attention to it during development.
Don't miss this episode, it's filled with interesting information and you're getting it directly from one of the experts!
Get in touch with Graham

• Twitter: @inHuOfficial or @grahamTheDev
• Dev.to: https://dev.to/inhuofficial (his reference piece, 101 Accessibility Tips)
• LinkedIn
• 4C Community Discord

Graham's Favorite Tools

• Axe by DEQUE
• Accessibility Insights by Microsoft
• A11y

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Chapters

1. Episode 10 - Accessibility in Web Applications with Graham Ritchie (00:00:00)

2. Meet Graham (00:00:55)

3. What is accessibility? (00:02:19)

4. Why isn't accessiblity a common practice in software development? (00:05:21)

5. What are the most common accessibility problems? (00:06:38)

6. Are there tools that we use every day that can help with accessibility? (00:09:13)

7. What tools can be used to check the accessibility of an app? (00:15:10)

8. Where can you learn about accessibility? (00:18:22)

9. Why aren't corps more interested in accessibility? (00:20:53)

10. When can you say "enough" when adding accessibility to a web app? (00:24:27)

11. What's the best advice ever received? (00:28:22)

12. The most interesting project (00:29:11)

13. One thing he regrets not knowing before starting to code (00:30:51)

14. Where can people find him? (00:34:08)