Description

We're welcoming Todd Libby to give us an intro to accessibility and what it means to make the web equal. Todd, a professional web developer, designer, and accessibility advocate for 22 years, provides a plethora of resources that can help everyone to get started and talks about how to advocate for accessibility and equality on projects.

Show Notes:

• toddl.dev
• @toddlibby on Twitter

Things/People mentioned in the episode:

• Making A Strong Case for Accessibility by Todd Libby
• Front Page Express
• Designing with Web Standards
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Cass Faris
• Chris DeMars

A11y Learning Resources:

• Introduction to Web Accessibility on edX
• WebAIM
• TPGi

Tools:

• WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
• axe accessibility toolkit
• pa11y command line
• Bookmarklets by Ian Loyyd and Paul J Adams
• Microsoft a11y insights
• Firefox a11y devtools
• Lighthouse automated testing
• Contrast Ratio tool by Lea Verou
• Colour Contrast Analyser

Todd's steps for manual testing:

1. Mouse only
2. Keyboard only
3. Squint test
4. Screen readers
5. Voice over in Safari
6. NVDA orJAWS in Windows
7. Orca on Linux

Sponsor Virtual Coffee!

Your support is incredibly valuable to us. Direct financial support will help

Sponsor Virtual Coffee!

Your support is incredibly valuable to us. Direct financial support will help us to continue serving the Virtual Coffee community.

Please visit our sponsorship page on GitHub for more information - you can evensponsor an episode of the podcast!

Virtual Coffee:

• Virtual Coffee: virtualcoffee.io
• Podcast Contact: podcast@virtualcoffee.io
• Bekah: dev.to/bekahhw, Twitter:https://twitter.com/bekahhw, Instagram:bekahhw
• Dan: dtott.com, Twitter:@danieltott