Tessa Kelly shares her experience unblocking users while building quality software, explains how to avoid the "accessibility dongle" using the Elm philosophy, and considers some tesk9/accessible-html design changes.
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Music by Jesse Moore.
Recording date: 2023.04.04
Guest* Tessa Kelly (https://github.com/tesk9)
Show notes[00:00:13] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:47] Introducing Tessa Kelly (she needs no introduction)* Elm Town 9 - Getting Started * Elm Town 30 - Accessibility with Tessa Kelly * Elm Radio - (2020) Holiday Special! * Elm Radio - Accessibility in Elm * tesk9/accessible-html * tesk9/palette * "Functional Data Structures" at elm-conf 2016 * "Accessibility with Elm" at elm-conf 2017 * "Writing Testable Elm" at elm-conf 2019 * Software Unscripted - Accessibility in Practice with the Accessibilibats! 🦇
[00:01:25] Tessa is stealing her brother's life[00:03:48] The early days of Elm at NoRedInk* NoRedInk/noredink-ui * "The life of a file" by Evan Czaplicki at Elm Europe 2017
[00:08:17] Motivation for building tesk9/accessible-html* The Four Principles of Accessibility - POUR
[00:12:40] Not disempowering people
"Don’t assume that you’re the default. Make space for there to be other ways of being.” - runner Lauren Fleshman on the Daily Stoic podcast
[00:18:32] The business motivation for accessibility* Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)
[00:25:51] The tests are there for you[00:28:07] Using Elm philosophy to avoid the "accessibility dongle"* Elm philosophy tweet
[00:34:31] accessible-html design ideas[00:44:53] How do you feel about CSS?[00:49:00] What's going on at NoRedInk?* "Word Labels" by Tessa Kelly on the NoRedInk blog.
[00:52:35] PicksTessa's picks* "Research Through Broken Lenses: The Need to ‘Shift Left’ in UX Research" by Michele Williams at axe-con 2023 * All of the axe-con 2023 talks * Jeroen Engel's elm-review
Jared's picks Aaron VonderHaar's elm-program-test * Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox * The End of This Day's Business* by Katharine Burdekin