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A11y-Friendly Documentation

A11y-Friendly Documentation

A talk focused on assistive technology and how to build accessible documentation.

Current deck from: Open Source 101
Recording: Coming soon!

Carolyn Stransky

May 12, 2020
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  1. @carolstran accessibility web accessibility degree to which an environment is

    usable by as many people as possible degree to which a website is usable by as many people as possible bit.ly/a11yfore
  2. screen readers @carolstran • jaws - job access with speech

    • apple’s voiceover • microsoft’s narrator
  3. One out of every 66 software developers is blind or

    hard of sight @carolstran StackOverflow Developer Survey bit.ly/so-devsurvey
  4. @carolstran Florian Beijers, freeCodeCamp “The tutorials are undoubtedly good, but

    were completely unreadable for me” bit.ly/fcc-florian
  5. @carolstran “We may or may not be responsible for writing

    the HTML, but if the developers we’re working with don’t produce semantic structure, then they’re not actually representing the structures that we’re building in our designs” Anne Gibson, independent consultant bit.ly/pfa-anne
  6. • can I tab through the page without getting lost?

    • do all focusable elements have focus states? • can I operate tabs, accordions, search results, etc with just my keyboard? • do I have a skip navigation link? @carolstran
  7. • what are the highlights and lowlights of the graphic?

    • what are the most important and notable parts? @carolstran
  8. 102 iOS downloads and 115 Android downloads occurred in April.

    143 iOS downloads and 126 Android downloads occurred in May. 27 iOS downloads and 18 Android downloads occurred in June. 124 iOS downloads and 138 Android downloads occurred in July. @carolstran
  9. if left paren x equals equals true right paren left

    brace console dot log left paren quote hello world exclaim quote right paren right brace @carolstran the example if-statement read by a screen reader
  10. “No one has ever complained that something was too easy

    to read” @carolstran Ashley Bischoff, copy editor at The Paciello Group bit.ly/ashley-fronteers