Nebraska.Code() Sessions tagged accessibility

Make Accessibility Easier to Get Right and Harder to Get Wrong (workshop)

Want to learn about accessibility through hands-on experience? Then check out this workshop where we'll go over these highlights:

  • Gain practical knowledge around disabilities and accessibility without getting overwhelmed.
  • Discover tools and methods to improve how you audit your own projects for accessibility.
  • Practice hand-on empathy exercises.
  • Learn how to navigate applications with a keyboard and screen-reader.
  • Build reusable components that enforce accessible practices.
  • Recognize common pitfalls in component design.
  • Incorporate tooling to catch errors in your editor, UI, Git workflow, repository, and CI/CD pipeline.

Speakers

Michael Fairchild

Michael Fairchild

Accessibility Coach, Deque Systems
Austin Gil

Austin Gil

Developer Advocate, Akamai

Make Accessibility Easier to Get Right and Harder to Get Wrong

Want to build accessible websites, but worried you're not an accessibility expert? Let's make things easier for everyone by building accessibility supports into the entire development lifecycle.

We'll look at integrating tools in: - Design tools - Code editor - Components - Browser - Tests - Git repos - CI/CD pipelines

This will help you and your team avoid some of the most common accessibility issues, and free up more time for the a11y folks to work on bigger issues.

Speaker

Austin Gil

Austin Gil

Developer Advocate, Akamai