Workshop: Improving Marketplace Accessibility for the Blind, from the Market’s Experience (Part 1)
summary
Ilya Sidorchik and his team describe making Yandex.Market more accessible for blind users and keyboard-only users. They identify specific issues (e.g., hard-to-find buttons, when removing role="button" helps, VoiceOver vs NVDA differences) and show step-by-step fixes: bug fixes, UI Kit improvements (titles, images, popups), keyboard navigation, touch updates, and manual and automated testing, with a workshop repo provided.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:58Code review setup
- 6:12Add-to-cart product card
- 14:10Menu duplicate sounds
- 16:48Menu hidden icon labels
- 23:11Skip to Content navigation
- 38:25Cart counter accessibility
- 40:32UI Kit unlabeled headings
- 42:43Image alt text SEO
- 47:48Hiding decorative images
- 50:02Icon visual accessibility
- 54:11Part 2 preview
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