Accessibility has certainly been a talking point within our industry since we first started building websites with spacer gifs and tables. We point out that there are lots of reasons to include accessibility in our final products: more users means more customers, better SEO, it's the law. And yet at the end of projects, when developers are asked if their site is accessible, we'll say "yes, I assume so." Unfortunately, testing reveals that a whopping 70% have a serious accessibility issue. Our entire industry has been thinking about accessibility in a way that has fundamentally failed us. And we can fix this.
In this session we will break through the rationalizations we use as we build websites. It will make you uncomfortable. And then we will discuss how we can work together to bring access to everyone. The session will include:
- my Netflix film recommendation
- one accessibility testing tool everyone can master
- why we fail to make websites accessible
- a civil rights discussion
- a quick tip for a backend dev to make a module accessible
- a quick tip for a frontend dev to make a theme accessible
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