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Accessibility is the process of creating applications that are usable by everyone, especially focusing on those with disabilities. As web developers, it’s important that we design and build our applications to be usable by everyone, so in today’s episode, we’re joined by Wendy Fox, the design systems lead at LogMeIn, to discuss nine common pitfalls of application accessibility and what you can do to fix them.

Show Notes

4:46 - Why should we care about accessibility?
8:43 - Types of accessibility
12:24 - Semantic HTML
16:37 - Virtually hiding content
17:57 - Aria label vs. labelledby
21:14 - The accessibility tree
23:50 - Focus states
27:29 - Color contrast
32:04 - Keyboard traps
35:02 - Animations
37:38 - Time based content
41:21 - Placeholders vs. labels
47:02 - Accessibility tools

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