Accessibility Matters: Building a Better Web

Presentation Slides

PDF (Google Drive)

Disabled in Tech Slack

Application to Join

A Slack community for disabled people in tech (or tech adjacent fields)

Links -- Guidelines & Testing

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Overview
• Europa Web Accessibility Policy
• WCAG page on EU guidelines (also links to other countries' guidelines)
• WAI-Aria Authoring Practices
• Web AIM, resource with checklists and whatnot
• Testing Accessibility of Pattern Libraries
• AChecker, accessibility checker

Links -- Others

• Using the dialog role, a way to make accessible modals in HTML (NOT compatible with all browsers!)
• WebAIM Screen Reader Survey, a breakdown of a lot of stats related to screen reader users
• Annie Segarra, activist and source of The Future Is Accessibility shirts
• The A11y Project
• SVG 1.1 Accessibility study
• David Berman video on accessibility concerns
• IBM Accessibility page

Chrome Extensions

• Chrome Accessibility Developer Tools, plugs into dev tools
• WAVE Tool, accessibility testing
• NoCoffee, allows you to simulate certain vision problems
• aXe, more accessibility testing
• Color Contrast Analyzer, color contrast checker

Some Screen Readers

JAWS

• Most widely used
• PC-only
• Costs around $1000 USD

NVDA

• Free screen reader
• Fairly popular after JAWS/built-in ones

Narrator

• Comes (free) with Windows
• Activate with Windows Key + Enter

Voice Over

• Comes (free) with Macs
• Activate with Command + F5

Browser-specific, like ChromeVox

• Only work in-browser
• Added through extensions