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Accessibility: The What, Why & How

Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE on July 01, 2022

In the last few months, accessibility has become more and more important to me, and I hope that after this article (and the upcoming ones in my n...
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Andrew Baisden β€’

Excellent article. Julia This one was jam-packed with useful and interesting content on the subject. I believe that too many developers regard accessibility as a low priority or afterthought when it should be an integral part of the development process.

Even now, aria (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) can be overlooked when working on a frontend codebase.

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Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE β€’

Thank you so much for your comment, Andrew!

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Murtuzaali Surti β€’

Awesome article! Thank you! I am currently learning accessibility and got to know so much from this article. ✨

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Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE β€’ β€’ Edited

Thank you so much for your comment, Murtuza! Really glad it helped! ☺️

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Murtuzaali Surti β€’

By the way, my name is Murtuza πŸ˜…

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Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE β€’

I will change that immediately, thanks for pointing this out! πŸ˜‡

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Murtuzaali Surti β€’

Thank You! 😁

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Volker Schukai β€’

great overview

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Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE β€’

Thanks Volker

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francoisaudic β€’

As an accessibility auditor, I am happy to see a web developer like you, who cares about accessibility, and put it as a priority.
Support for you !

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Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE β€’

Thank you so much Francois πŸ˜‡

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Sylwia Vargas β€’

I love your articles! Thank you for this series - I'm looking forward to the next parts!

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Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE β€’

Thanks, Sylwia ☺️

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Rense Bakker β€’

Nice article! Its worth noting that for web developers, they can use a11y eslint plugin to highlight accessibility problems in their code!

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Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE β€’

There is soooo much to mention, I am only getting started 😁

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Anneta Wamono β€’

Awesome article! I've been working a lot on improving the accessibility on my sites so this article is very helpful to me.

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Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE β€’

That's nice to hear, thank you. I am happy that you are going to improve your knowledge of accessibility!

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Josefine Schfr β€’

Thanks so much for sharing this, Julia - it's such an important topic and we can't educate ourselves enough on it!

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Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE β€’

Thanks, Josefine! You are so right.