A11y with Ben Myers
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Questions
- Tell us about yourself Ben?
- Has accessibility always been important and we just keep dropping the ball? Or was it the famous Domino’s case where they excluded people with disabilities from using it’s website?
- A11y is a Numeronym!
- What are some good tools to use to check for accessibility?
- What things are included in A11y?
- Color Contrast
- Contrast Checker
- Another Contrast Checker
- Axe
- Color Contrast Post
- Contrast Finder
- Only use a website with Keyboard
- Tab order
- skip to content
- Color Contrast
- What is Aria? A filler for your markup.
- Ben Meyers on What is Aria
- Accessibility Tree
- Alt tags, do you describe decorative images?
- Telling a story of the image.
- Convey the message, but also the tone.
- Not where it isn’t relevant.
- If you don’t need alt text, use
alt="".
- Since you work on Microsoft Docs, what are they doing to help assist those who use Docs in a non-traditional way?
In the United States, 61 million adults are living with a disability, according to current federal data . A 2017 National Health Interview Survey found that 26.9 million people in the United States (10% of adult Americans) reported experiencing vision loss. An estimated 15% of American adults (37.5 million) reported some trouble hearing, according to a 2012 National Health Interview Survey .
Links
Inaccessible Recipe List Site - Repo
https://blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into-the-pit-of-success/
