Skip to Content from Huxley: Recent Episodes
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Skip to Content is our online accessibility magazine and podcast where we gather resources and opinions about online accessibility from as many people as possible. Listen to our podcast for the best online accessibility insights and perspectives.
It’s a very exciting 14th edition of our Podcast interview series on Skip to Content because this week we spoke to Chris Coyier.
Chris is Co-founder of code-pen, and ran CSS Tricks before it was acquired last year by Digital Ocean.
With such a grounding in making good things for the web I was really excited to be able to speak to him and get his take on the questions we have been asking everyone.
He brings a lot to the chat as his focus is very much on what accessibility means to web designers and developers. The looming spectre of AI also appears.
Hear it all for yourself here. If you're not already following, hook up with Chris via the links on his website at chriscoyier.net.
It's another episode of Skip to Content! Back in October we joined London Web Standards at their exceptional State of the Browser conference in London. All of the talks were fantastic, but the team here were really into a talk by Hidde de Vries, which he titled “Shifting left, or: making accessibility easier by doing it earlier’. The content therein was very relevant to what we like to talk about here!
You will see for yourself below in Hidde’s answers which speak to the need to consider accessibility as early as possible, beginning with the need to just challenge your own assumptions.
You can find Hidde @HDV on Twitter and at hidde.blog, as well as via Sanity.io
In this latest edition of our Skip to Content interview series, Heather Hepburn discusses her accessibility-driven mission at global travel brand Skyscanner. She tells us about her journey from UX Writer to Accessibility while working on a website that generates around 100 million visitors a month.
We discuss Heather's experience introducing accessibility to her team and processes, the value of accessibility champions to an organisation and why closing skill or awareness gaps, in design and development teams, is vital.
Connect with Heather on LinkedIn . Watch this interview on YouTube
It is Episode 11 in our interview series, and a big one for our team as we speak to Brad Frost, renowned design system consultant and web designer from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania .
Around ten years ago, Brad wrote 'Atomic Design', which has been a big influence in the way a lot of people approach design systems for the web.
By its very nature it speaks to accessibility and the creation of more inclusive design systems and we explore that further here, discussing the challenge of eliminating the sheer waste you see in web design - time, effort, talent - as well as the broader pursuit of better web design that suits the needs of all users and how we must bake accessibility and empathy into the foundational tools we use in our work.
Brad has a lot to give in this interview and we really hope you enjoy it as much as we we did.
In the latest interview in our 'Skip to Content' interview series, Dom speaks to Product Design Lead @ Waitrose & Partners, John Paternoster
John has extensive agency experience working in design, UX, branding and advertising.
In his role as a product design lead, he oversees production of rich, human-centered, engaging and considered solutions for Waitrose.
He gives us some fascinating insight about how Waitrose make the most of customer feedback, and how important it is to consider a full range of needs from real people.
He relates how his team are championing accessibility in the ways they augment their physical spaces in relation to their their digital channels.
Enjoy!
For the 8th interview in our 'Skip to Content' interview series, Dom speaks to Ab11y's Gareth Ford-Williams.
Gareth was founder of the digital accessibility team in BBC New Media, heavily involved in developing iPlayer and determining BBC accessibility standards for an organisation who's assets were accessed by a billion people per week in 44 languages!
Gareth spoke to Dom about real-life digital inclusion, how important it is to find your people and create a culture of accessibility and how a lot of his digital accessibility principles principles were born out of the petri-dish’ his team created with the BBC iPlayer.
For the latest in our 'Skip to Content' interview series, Tom speaks to Robin Christopherson. MBE, head of digital inclusion at AbilityNet.
If you don't know already, AbilityNet are one of the leading authorities on digital inclusion, certainly in the UK - providing support and leadership for improved access to the web and other digital services.
Robin spoke to Tom about why he cares so much about using the web for good, why accessibility is so important, and what we can all do to make a difference.
Ada is co-chair of the W3C Immersive Web Groups, bringing WebXR to the web. She is also Developer Advocate for the Web Browser at Samsung Internet. Our conversation fairly quickly spiralled off course, but explored interesting topics including ethics and the metaverse.
Ada is at the forefront of progressive web technologies, and her insights are incredibly interesting to anyone who spends time contemplating what the future might look like!
Sarah made it easier for people to use the Government website, and now does the same for hundreds of other organisations. This is a fascinating interview!
We were privileged to interview a well known name in the accessibility space, Leonie Watson – someone we’d seen previously, giving a talk at Accessibility Scotland in 2019.
Leonie describes herself as; Director and co-founder of TetraLogical; accessibility engineer; W3C WebApps WG co-chair; screen reader user, tequila drinker and crime fiction junkie.
Thanks to her for taking the time out of her schedule to answer her questions. This interview was a true pleasure.