Accessibility is a big topic that can seem hard to get into because there is so much to learn! Being far from an accessibility expert myself, but doing my best to learn more about it, I interviewed Ashlee Boyer to talk about what accessibility is, why it matters, and how we can get started with it without feeling overwhelmed.

Links
✅ Follow Ashlee on Twitter:   / ashleemboyer  
✅ The a11y Project: https://www.a11yproject.com
✅ Tatiana Mac's article on prefersreducedmotion: https://tatianamac.com/posts/prefers...
✅ WAIARIA authoring practices: https://www.w3.org/TR/waiariapracti...
Spoon theory https://happiful.com/whatisthespoo...


⌚ Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Introduction to Ashlee
03:52 What does "improve accessibility" mean?
05:32 The four categories of disabilities
07:18 Visual disabilities
09:14 The importance of semantic HTML
10:49 Auditory disabilities
13:35 Motor disabilities
16:08 Cognitive disabilities
20:37 ARIA roles
24:17 You don't have to learn it all at once
28:30 Dark mode


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