The Human Side of Accessibility
summary
Accessibility affects more than 1 billion people (about 15% of the world, ~65 million blind), so prioritize it before delight features; many teams still put visuals first. Follow WCAG 2.1, enforce color contrast >= 4.5 (7 for AAA), use 16px minimum body text and 44px touch targets, honor prefers-reduced-motion, and keep semantic HTML (headings, nav as lists, meaningful alt and link text). Test with Axe + Lighthouse, tota11y and screen readers (NVDA/JAWS/VoiceOver); inclusive component libraries like Reach UI reduce the work.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 17:55Color Contrast
- 20:00Patterns and colors
- 20:26Typography
- 21:23Animations
- 23:50Page Semantic
- 26:42Images & Links
- 28:12Keyboard Nav
- 30:01Outline
- 32:07Touch Area
- 33:15Lighthouse
- 35:16Take Ownership
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