031 jsAir - Automated Accessibility Testing with aXe-core with Dylan Barrell, Marcy Sutton, and Wilco Fiers

JavaScript Air

• Episode: 031 jsAir - Automated Accessibility Testing with aXe-core with Dylan Barrell, Marcy Sutton, and Wilco Fiers
• Website: JavaScript Air
• Feed URL: http://audio.javascriptair.com/feed/
• Duration: 01:01:34
• Published: 2016-07-14 03:26

Automated Accessibility Testing with aXe-core with Dylan Barrell, Marcy Sutton, and Wilco Fiers Description:

The Deque Labs team is doing some really cool stuff for automated accessibility testing, bringing their years of accessibility expertise to mainstream web developers. The open source axe-core framework, written entirely in JavaScript, supports a bunch of integrations: unit testing, Selenium Webdriver, Chrome and Firefox extensions, Grunt, React and more. Get the low-down on how to integrate accessibility testing into your workflow with the core team from Deque.

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• Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
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• Trading Technologies - Building For What's Next
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• Sentry - Cross-platform crash-reporting

Links, Picks, and Tips: Marcy Sutton @marcysutton Links

• axe-core node module

Tips

• Get away from the computer and GO OUTSIDE.

Picks

• I'm speaking about aXe at npm camp
• I'm speaking at React Rally
• Installing the Chrome Accessibility Inspector

Dylan Barrell @dylanbarrell Picks

• Deque University
• React & Redux
• React Axe - React A11y
• Crew Seekers

Wilco Fiers @wilcofiers Picks

• The WAI Perspectives
• Looking for help developing new rules for a11y testing

Brian Lonsdorf @drboolean Links

• Clarity Conf: Baking Accessibility In by Brad Frost

Tips

• Get familiar with your screenreader.

Picks

• Gershom Bazerman: Representing Applicatives
• Alissa Pajer: Category Theory: An Abstraction for Anything
• Practically Functional Programming Workshop

Kent C. Dodds @kentcdodds Tips

• Don’t spend money on Pokemon Go 😀

Picks

• Contributing to React JS
• eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y

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