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About This Talk
My talk is about how you can use front-end code to make your site more accessible to people with disabilities. You'll learn about how browsers talk to assistive technologies and how to build more accessible forms, tables and rich text content.
Takeaways
- Our apps need to be accessible
- Good markup (HTML) makes a huge difference, it gives us a lot of accessibility for free
- Always consider which names, roles and states your markup conveys
Slides
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🌈 Comment below and ask me questions — I might just answer them during my live speaker discussion!
About Hidde de Vries
I am freelance web developer and accessibility specialist, working with organizations like W3C, Mozilla and the Dutch government to create fast, usable and accessible experiences for their end users. As a volunteer, I was previously involved with Fronteers, the professional association and front-end conference in The Netherlands, organizing meet-ups, workshops and conferences. I blog on hidde.blog. You can find me on Twitter at @hdv.
This on-demand talk is part of CodeLand 2021 — a virtual conference brought to you by CodeNewbie & DEV on September 23 & 24, 2021.
Oldest comments (36)
Accessibility is one thing I would like to improve about my code. I can't wait for this talk!
Yay, hope you like it!
Working on UI is one of the hardest thing that I deal with! Thank you for this info
thanks for attending!
another fantastic talk. Working on Accessibility in my learning journey at the moment too. Simple things to people like myself that you just dont realise can be a barrier for others. Even temporarily
thank you, Stewart!
Will AOM also allow programmatic modifications to the Accessibility tree?
Maybe! This has not materialised just yet.
Thank you for this talk! It was full of a lot of concrete and specific information and actions.
Thank you, Sarah!
I had not heard of ARIA before- thank you!
That's a new one for me also!
thanks for attending! Note, in most cases HTML is preferred over ARIA, but in cases where HTML doesn't cut it, ARIA can help.
Nice thanks for the info
You're welcome!
Wow, that was an information filled talk! Amazing. Thank you!!! I'm bookmarking this one.
thank you, Steve!
I have so much to learn about implementing better accessibility. I work on products where most of our customers say they don't need accessibility and those products aren't publicly available. What's your opinion on including or adding accessibility to those products anyways, perhaps even after an initial release? @hidde
I'm there with you, and have also had customers say their products don't need accessibility. But statistically, this statement can't really be true for any product. According to WHO, 15-20% of people have a disability, and if they're not using your client's product, it may be because they can't as the product wasn't made accessible in the first place— this may be a chicken and egg situation. If it is software used in a workplace, lack of accessibility could be a problem if you when you hire people with disability. In other words, accessibility is important in all products, also non-public ones.
i loved this one! accessibility is one of the smallest but most complex details to work and focus on for me. i've always been interested in web dev but i haven't dived into it all the way during my first months of exploring development. lots of useful info, awesome discussion! :D
thank you, MJ!