Accessibility Matters: Creating a Better Web
summary
Covers concrete wins and traps: cites ~19% of Americans with disabilities and ~10 million blind in the US, shows how WCAG 2.0 maps to real failures (edX captions, Winn‑Dixie suit), demos quick fixes like restoring browser focus state with one CSS line and matching labels/ARIA on forms, lists test tools (Chrome accessibility developer tool, NoCoffee, AChecker, WAVE, JAWS), and describes a working solution that inlines SVGs into templates so icons keep titles and ARIA attributes rather than losing accessibility.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 3:15What is Web Accessibility?
- 8:29How can you plan for stress cases?
- 10:10A Metaphor
- 21:03Common Choices That Are Awful For Accessibility
- 24:01The trend of blocking ad blockers makes your site way less accessible
- 26:14Is The Styling Causing Harm?
- 28:08All of Your Content Is Important
- 30:30Accessibility Can Mean Finding Middle Ground
- 35:05AChecker (website)/WAVE Evaluation Tool (extension)
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