When we develop a new web application, we often put a lot of work on the design, on making it beautiful and usable. In other words, we want our web app to be effective, efficient, and satisfying for the user. But a lot of times we don’t think about the user experience for people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments.
Web accessibility (a11y ) means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with websites and tools, and that they can contribute equally without barriers.” (Source: W3C - Web Accessibility Initiative). Our role as frontend and web developers is to create clear interfaces to make people understand and care about data, independently of their disabilities or impairments, but what we, developers, often forget is to ensure that the code we write follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and the only way to achieve that is testing, either manual or automated.
In this talk I would love to show the tools we can use to create more accessible web applications, some good practices when we code a new web application and how to test and audit it in the browser thanks to the integrated developer tools.
Collection of examples: https://codepen.io/collection/XJNepY/
Video of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKYA-7tczuk
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My name is Adrián Bolonio. I’m an Engineering Team Lead, Frontend Developer, and Web Accessibility (a11y) advocate. I'm from Spain, but since 2012 I've been living and working in Vienna (Austria). When I’m not at the office I enjoy a good read, working my way through any delicious recipe, and indulging my love for traveling to new places.
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