Accessibility Driven Development
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Andrea Ercoli describes how Madisoft, a company making school software, started an Accessibility Driven Development effort after an Accessibility Days event. The talk covers the motivations and challenges they faced, the technology stack they adopted, and what remains to do to put accessibility first in their development process.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Event introduction
- 1:31Thanks and context
- 2:56Ma Soft and Nuvola product
- 3:58Accessibility journey start
- 5:05Why accessibility matters
- 6:54Accessibility as professional value
- 9:23Common excuses against accessibility
- 10:50Ma Soft development process
- 12:55Accessibility in workflow
- 15:46Accessibility Driven Development defined
- 16:49WCAG and reading tools
- 19:59Automated linting
- 22:10axe DevTools analysis
- 24:01axe DevTools demo
- 25:46WAI-ARIA and HTML semantics
- 27:30Assistive tech and consulting
- 28:33Accessible component library
- 29:55Testing with Testing Library
- 31:24Tools vs human will
- 31:45Conclusion and nuances
- 32:48Q&A
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