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An Introduction to Web Accessibility

Lopè Ariyo on June 21, 2020

I'll admit, I'm new to the world of accessibility. It's something that I had heard of and knew was important but I didn't actually know how to impl...
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Beez Fedia • Edited

This is a great intro into the "why" and thank you for the list of resources! I also got a lot from the Accessibility in Javascript Applications course on @frontendmasters from @marcysutton . And, listening to Steve Krug about usability testing made me look differently at what's needed to make a site usable. Looking forward to the next posts in your series!

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Lopè Ariyo

Nice! Thank you for this!

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CodePosse

I have been working for several high-profile clients for accessibility for quite some time and writing many blogs about it. I actually started making some brute force compliance JavaScript stuff just for kicks to rapid triage a site and I thought that maybe somebody might make use of it and help contribute.
github.com/CodePosse/WCAG-Brute-Force

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Lopè Ariyo

Thank you!

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Chloe

Good post I know bit about semantics but it is a massive topic there and this is definitely something I need to learn a lot more about. When I asked about resources a couple of people suggested this playlist youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYkxOF... already learnt quite a bit of the videos I've watched so far

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Lopè Ariyo

Oh yes! I came across this too! It's wonderful because each video is easily digestible!

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Lopè Ariyo

I'm with you on that! I'm currently working on creating a blog using just HTML & CSS so that I can get into the habit of practicing #1, #2, #4 and #5 more in my work

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Tolani Benson

This is great stuff Lopé, I'll definitely be following along and learning with you! Thanks :)

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Lopè Ariyo

wooooh!