The Importance of #a11y-ship
summary
Argues that accessibility matters now with concrete numbers — ~15% of people (~1+ billion) have disabilities, 26,000 permanent cases and 13 million temporary cases a year — and shows simple fixes that increase participation: replace color-only yes/maybe/no buttons with icons, embed links and use tinyurl rather than raw URLs, add headings and alt text, prefer bullets over complex tables. Calls out failures: animated captions distract, timecode-heavy transcripts break reading, and recommends learning screen reader behavior and studying for CPACC as part of a11y work.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome and updates
- 2:51Accessibility introduction
- 5:00Disability types overview
- 9:31Hearing test demo
- 13:14Why accessibility matters
- 19:22DEI to IDEA shift
- 24:43Common fixes for mistakes
- 28:49Learning from mistakes
- 33:51Resources and certification
- 37:50Q&A
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