Rescue the Dead Horse

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Covers how technical debt harms web accessibility and prioritizes fixes, using real-world examples. Names accessibility as the specific problem and demonstrates practical steps to begin remediating accessibility-related technical debt and how much progress can be made.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:48Dead horse
3. 2:15What is Technical Debt?
4. 2:30Bad Code = Lack
5. 3:18Technical Debt is a conscious Trade-off
6. 8:29Repaying Tech Debt
7. 9:15How many passed a basic WCAG test?
8. 11:18Fun facts
9. 12:27How do we begin repaying?
10. 15:35Long term warning!
11. 15:45Cultural change in the company
12. 21:35No code can fix bad design.
13. 22:21Team work
14. 22:41You can't avoid Tech Debt

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