Accessibility: Coding and Beyond
summary
A deaf accessibility consultant describes concrete fixes: projects use semantic HTML before ARIA, test with automated tools plus manual and user testing, and consult real disabled users; live captions at the event come from a professional human captioner delivered remotely (not ASR). Key numbers: 1.3 billion people with disabilities, 466 million deaf or hard‑of‑hearing, 5,000 ADA suits in H1 2018. Practical warnings: lipreading gives ~30% info, avoid CAPTCHA, and require multiple contact channels (text/chat/email) because phone fields cut signups.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:02Disability as largest minority
- 7:31Accessibility journey and UX
- 13:27Misconceptions about accessibility
- 16:38WCAG guidelines and POUR
- 19:17Semantic markup and ARIA
- 23:39Accessibility testing methods
- 26:20Why assumptions fail
- 27:24Speech tech myths
- 32:45Post-launch accessibility maintenance
- 33:46Accessible online forms and CAPTCHA
- 38:46Accessibility in social media
- 41:21Live captions versus video captions
- 44:14Making events accessible
- 46:47Ethical communication access
- 47:52Accessibility as business investment
- 48:35Resources for accessibility
- 50:02Q&A
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