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Conversations around web accessibility
Global Awareness Accessibility Day 2020! This is the third year I'm having a special episode for this event. I started with panel discussion...
Joe Devon says the one thing people should remember about accessibility is that building great products is about listening to your user. And...
Joe Devon tells us that lot of accessibility is knowing the culture and different communities that view it differently. Thanks to Gatsby for...
Devon Persing and I talk a little bit about burnout in the web accessibility industry. Thanks to Gatsby for being a sponsor of the show. Gat...
Devon Persing tells us that the compliance model doesn't capture the whole picture of accessibility. And it feels like a separate thing from...
Congressman Tony Coelho tells us that people with disabilities must have the right to fail. Without failure you can't learn from the mistake...
Congressman Tony Coelho talks about his life with a disability, his journey of working for the People, and how he introduced the ADA. Thanks...
Emily states: "Hardest part of the job is coming up with solutions. It's one thing to identify what's wrong, it's entirely another thing to...
Emily Lewis said: Accessibility is not about screen readers or keyboard navigation or code. It’s about people. And them being able to access...
About one thing everyone knows about accessibility... Amberley says: “I think everyone knows when something is not acceptable to them” Thank...
Amberley defines web accessibility as "building for the web in ways that ensure it’s usable by everyone. There aren’t barriers to use for an...
Christopher says that for someone who likes Design so much, he didn't realize how important good color contrast was, and how bad color contr...
Jessica suggests that accessibility is a competitive advantage. The more people can use your product, the more likely they are to spend mone...
Jessica and I ponder whether low-literacy could be considered a disability, and regardless of the answer, that factor needs to be taken into...
Stephanie Walter says there’s a lot of things she thought everybody knew about accessibility that actually not a lot of people knew. So, she...
Stephanie Walter tells us that designers should provide a roadmap to their design for the developer, but in many projects, there just isn't...
To highlight Global Awareness Accessibility Day, I had a wonderful panel discussion with four people involved in accessibility: Courey Ellio...
Damien tells us "Later does not exist in our industry. Don't push something without accessibility now. Because you will NOT go back and fix...
In which Damien Senger tells us "Universal design is the answer, more than accessibility. Because people are on a spectrum." Thanks to Twili...
In which Liz Jackson tells us she wishes people viewed accessibility as an opportunity to engage, rather than a legal compliance thing. Than...
Liz Jackson says it's not enough to fix accessibility, people with disabilities must be included. She says: "I think somebody thinks that if...
Amy Carney tells us accessibility is not just a checklist of standards but that we really are building experience for people and allowing th...
Amy Carney tells us that accessibility "comes down to a design perspective. We’re designing to include people, specifically people with disa...
Alli says that getting the right people in the same room at the start of a project is very difficult and can impede accessibility. Thanks to...
Alli tells us how experiencing lack of accessibility for a classmate of hers in the built environment helped her understand the importance o...
Jen tells us to start accessibility today, to start with one thing. Then to do one more thing, and then one more. Thanks to Twilio for spons...
Jen Luker tells us, among other things, that with thoroughness comes confusion - if you're trying to learn all of WCAG and ARIA at once, you...
Chris tells us "the biggest challenge that [the accessibility community is] going to have, and it currently stands now, is the never-ending...
Chris is a front-end developer based in Detroit, MI. He tells us, among other things, that learning about accessibility is an ongoing proces...
In which Ire tells us that she thinks convincing framework developers to implement accessibility will have more impact than trying to change...
In the first part of my interview, Ire Aderinokun tells us that accessibility will not take you a massive effort if you're using HTML correc...
Continuing my chat with Beth. We discuss, among other things, accessibility as a coding challenge vs having to meet tight deadlines - and ho...
Beth is an accessibility specialist and a UX interaction designer. She was part of an award winning team at United. She compares acceptance...
Marcy tells us that her greatest frustration is that for all of the energy that we put into this all the time it feels like we’re stagnant i...
Marcy tells us that it's important for folks in the accessibility community to listen to developers' needs. She also states that we ought to...
Eric tells us accessibility shouldn't be just technical curiosity. It's about people. Transcript Nic : Welcome to the Accessibility Rules po...
Eric tells us, among other things, that relationship building is a good way to get passed the hostility some people have towards accessibili...
Alex is a developer who has experienced the difference between baking in accessibility from the start compared to trying to retrofit accessi...
Adrienne McDonnell is a front end developer at Elsevier. She says that knowing how to navigate a site with the keyboard is a fundational ski...
Transcript Nic : Welcome to the A11y Rules podcast. I'm Nic Steenhout and this is a special episode for the 2018 International podcast day....
John Tubbs is an educator working for about thirty years in the area of high tech, digital education, online learning. He discusses accessib...
Jen says that many of the needs for accessibility aren't that hard to accommodate by developers and designers! I couldn't agree more. Thanks...
I love what Jen had to say about accessibility! She said, among other things: "accessibility is about the recognition that every human isn’t...
Becky talks about accessibility needing to be in the curriculum for all computer science courses - and I couldn't agree more! Thanks to Twil...
In this episode, Becky talks to us about how changes in technology has changed her perception of accessibility. She also tells us how she ca...
"It’s a frustration of mine that too often when somebody asks me a question about accessibility, the only answer I can really give if I want...
In a role reversal, for the first episode of the second year of the show - I'm the one being interviewed :) Léonie Watson was kind enough to...
Eric says that accessibility "is a foundational principle of the web. Like literally the web is built on accessibility. The original specs d...
Eric talks about accessibility, of course, and semantics, and frameworks, and more! The web prioritises ubiquity over consistency and a lot...