Accessibility awareness
summary
94.8% of the top 1M sites fail WCAG checks and over 96% of issues cluster in six categories: low contrast text, missing alt text, unlabeled form inputs, empty links/buttons, and missing document language; Europe counts ~100 million people with disabilities and 95% of Italian pages fail. Practical fixes shown include adding a dark theme with persisted preference to a Django site, using WAVE and a color-contrast checker and running axe in CI to catch regressions, and simplifying forms so required phone fields don’t force unusable flows.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:54Why accessibility matters
- 4:21Visual and situational disabilities
- 8:23Accessibility affects everyone
- 10:12Legal cases and EU directives
- 13:48Real-world accessibility failures
- 17:21Code and UI accessibility fixes
- 21:57Documentation and HTML structure
- 27:09Why accessible design helps all
- 29:56How developers can make an impact
- 36:25Call to action and closing
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