Things I Wish I Knew When I Started in Digital Accessibility
summary
Cuts through generalities with actionable rules: gathers 20+ voices into three buckets — sell it, build it, support it — and gives concrete steps: start small (make one widget accessible to prove low cost), include people with disabilities in personas, stop treating accessibility as a checklist, use the HTML5 validator to check WAI‑ARIA, run a simple tab test to catch focus problems, learn VoiceOver/JAWS or NVDA, train teams, and reward good companies instead of shaming them.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:44Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- 3:09Accessibility Camps
- 4:51Three Categories
- 5:55John Paul II
- 7:20Accessibility Never Need
- 8:25Never Treat One Enterprise Like Another
- 11:19Understand Different Project Managers
- 12:48Accessibility is a Continuum
- 13:58User Experience and Accessibility
- 16:11Look for the Source
- 18:05Accessibility is NOT a Checklist
- 20:09Interaction Flow and Focus Management
- 24:14HTML5 Validator
- 25:26Browser Accessibility
- 26:25Browser Accessibility API
- 27:12Screen Readers
- 29:39Assistive Technology
- 31:22Recap
- 32:02Accessibility
- 33:47Chain of Demand
- 36:34Accessibility Community
- 38:07Facebook and Twitter
- 39:07Accessibility Camp
- 41:21Aint Section
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