171: Web Accessibility with Chris DeMars

Greater Than Code

01:14 - Chris’s Superpower: His Ability to Sleep.

01:50 - Why Chris Wants To Talk About Web Accessibility

• Top 3 Priorities When Building on the Web
  • Accessibility
  • Performance
  • Security

02:45 - Whose Responsibility Is It To Build An Accessible Web?

• Anyone Building On The Web
• Dominos’ Lawsuit
• WCAG

07:38 - How To Inform And Get Colleagues On Board With Accessibility

• Understanding The Clientele
• Have Numbers To Back It Up

11:45 - Image Descriptions

• Alt Attributes
• Twitter Adds Alt Text For .gifs

16:34 - Companies Deal With Accessibility Lawsuits

19:07 - Where To Start Making Changes

• Only Shipping One Experience That Works For Everybody
• Make Sure You Are Using Semantic Markup
• Color Contrast
• Make Sure There Are Alt Attributes On Your Images

27:50 - What Can Developers Do Today To Make Changes

• Start With An Audit
• Compare To Competitors

31:06 - Work Collaboratively With The Designers

34:15 - How To Be Accessible For Various Disabilities

• Hearing
• Cognitive
• Physical

37:10 - Accessibility Can Benefit Everyone

Reflections:

Chris: Accessibility is not a requirement, it is a must. From Marcy Sutton: Every little bit of accessibility you contribute is so necessary and so needed.

Carina: The concrete useful examples such as audits are beneficial to business people.

Jacob: Wants to get better at using a screen reader to gain empathy about what the right thing is to do.

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Special Guest: Chris DeMars.

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