Web Accessibility with Maria Korneeva on Web Rush #232

Maria Korneeva talks with Craig about ways developers can be more aware of accessibility issues in their web sites and apps, how to test accessibility issues, and tooling for viewing the accessibility tree.

Direct link to the episode.

const podcast = { 
  episode: 232,
  title: 'Web Accessibility',
  topics: [ 
    'Accessibility', 'tooling', 'issues'
  ],
  guest: 'Maria Korneeva'
  hosts: [
    'Craig Shoemaker'
  ]
};

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Maria Korneeva @BrowserPerson

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Maria Korneeva
• Myths of Accessibility
• Accessibility Linter
• W3C Accessibility Course
• Accessible Forms
• Axe Browser Extensions
• Chrome Lighthouse
• Angular A11y ESLint
• Accessibility auditing with react-axe and eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y
• Accessibility Tree

Timejumps

• 00:40 Guest introduction
• 00:58 Biking through Europe
• 02:17 How did you get into working with web accessibility?
• 03:17 What does accessibility mean to you?
• 04:40 What's a myth of accessibility?
• 07:13 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:16 What things would be harder on the accessibility list?
• 14:39 How can software teams fight for accessibility?
• 19:38 What tools do you use to develop with accessibility in mind?
• 23:50 What about linters for writing code with accessibility?
• 27:18 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 28:16 What are common accessibility mistakes people make?
• 34:50 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.