Proven ways to make your website accessible in 2023
summary
Practical checklist of claims and tools: WCAG compliance plus building an accessible design system with tokens, focus management and documented component usage; automated checks (GitHub Actions) and end-to-end/unit testing — Cypress and Playwright — that catch roughly 50% of accessibility bugs; manual testing with assistive tech and diverse users to prove critical flows are compliant usable and joyful; caution about third‑party libraries, willingness to rebuild components, and annotations that lock accessibility into the product lifecycle.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:54Why accessibility matters
- 7:33Accessibility strategy pillars
- 13:14Automated accessibility testing
- 16:46Designers and developers collaboration
- 20:00User testing with diverse abilities
- 22:30Sustainable accessibility plan
- 24:17Conclusion and key takeaways
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