Integrating Accessibility with Elle Waters
How do you integrate accessibility into your applications? Carl and Richard chat with Elle Waters about her on-going work helping educate developers and organizations to include accessibility features as part of their user experience design. Elle digs into how accessibility should become part of your workflow - it takes time to learn, but once understood, it doesn't cost much in terms of routine work. The same applies to client-side and mobile tech. In the end, accessibility *is* user experience - you gotta do it!
Guests:
Elle Waters
Evangelizing the growth of Universal Design and lean accessibility as best practices within large organizations, Elle Waters works on behalf of Level Access with startups and enterprise level clients to build the foundation needed to integrate accessibility into every facet of work culture. She's worked first hand with design, content, development, and testing teams to create agile, scalable methods to ensure more inclusive user experiences. Elle has a passion for all things agile, a fascination with emerging technology, and a healthy fear of zombies.
Links:
- AlphaFS http://alphafs.alphaleonis.com/
- WAI-ARIA https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/
- The A11Y Project https://a11yproject.com/
- W3C Mobile Accessibility https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/mobile/
- JAWS http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/software/JAWS/
- Non-Visual Access https://www.nvaccess.org/