Guests Becca Lesser and David Morefield talk about designing and developing accessible applications.
A little about the importance of addressing accessibility:
- Over a billion people are estimated to live with some form of disability, which can include blindness, deafness, and a variety of others. This corresponds to about 15 percent of the world's population. (World Health Organization)
- About 217 million people worldwide have moderate to severe vision impairment. (World Health Organization)
- Over 61 million Americans (1 in 4) have a disability that impacts major life activities. (CDC)
- Approximately 40 percent of adults age 65 and up have one or more disabilities. (CDC)
Source: https://blog.usablenet.com/business-case-for-web-accessibility-in-2020
Resources:
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Accessibility
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/Understanding_WCAG
- https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/
- https://www.deque.com/
- https://www.deque.com/training/
Accessibility Tools:
- https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/accessibility_testing.html
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wave-evaluation-tool/jbbplnpkjmmeebjpijfedlgcdilocofh?hl=en-US
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/image-alt-text-viewer/nhmihbneenlkbjjpbimhegikadfleccd?hl=en
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/axe-devtools-web-accessib/lhdoppojpmngadmnindnejefpokejbdd?hl=en-US
- https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core-npm/tree/develop/packages/react