Hello everyone 👋,
We will be having a group AMA with:
They will be answering your #a11y questions live from May 8th, 05:00 PM GMT onwards.
Topics we'll cover include but not limited to:
Shoot us your questions in the comments below! 👇
Adewale Olaoye
FrontEnd Developer
After I try to make an accessible web design, how do I find people to test it?
What advice do you have to help get buy-in for accessibility from stakeholders, decision makers or even PMs?
Although accessibility is widely accepted and highly important in the design department at my company, we do have issues getting content writers and especially developers interested and accountable in accessibility. I work at a large org. What have you found that works to get other teams invested in accessibility?
What are your favorite stories about accessibility victories you were involved in? Did those victories teach you anything that might help the rest of us achieve more victories?
A lot of the conversation about web accessibility focuses on development, but how can other disciplines contribute to make the sites we build more accessible?
Are there ever occasions when a non-interactive element should be in the tab order?
In testing output from a popular eLearning software, I found that the method for providing text (rendered as images) was to add aria-labels and then make different parts of the markup focusable and tabbable so screen-reader users could tab to the content to hear it read.
Also, I cannot find anywhere in WCAG which says that non-interactive elements should not be in tab order.
Accessibility has become widely know and sort-for topic with a lot of developers and organizations advocating for the need to focus more on it towards building for the Next Billion Users. Lately, I've been trying to learn more about auditing accessibility and testing accessibility on the web.
What do you think about testing the accessibility of your project until it complies with all the accessibility standards and guidelines?
Does accessibility only apply to web development? How can I apply it to android development?
I think I understand what web accessibility means, but I'm not sure how we can make media files accessible. Can you share some more insights, please?
Hi Jen, Obinna, Segun and Tatiana ;) Thanks for this AMA.
IMO, I think accessibility is hard because most of its concepts are not included in the basics. Most of us had to learn how to make our applications accessible after building them for a very long time hence most developers see it as stress. Why do you think accessibility is not included in fundamental courses just like you're taught "forms" in every HTML course?.
Do you think this is changing and how can we embrace this?
Tatiana Mac
Open Source Maintainer/Developer
Medical Doctor and Software Engineer at Andela
Adewale Olaoye
FrontEnd Developer
This is Nice, for the first time I follow Accessibility talk and I understand what it is. Currently, checking what I'm working on Accessibility. Thanks, everyone