106 ARIA for Developers

The Web Platform Podcast

• Episode: 106 ARIA for Developers
• Website: The Web Platform Podcast
• Feed URL: http://thewebplatformpodcast.com/rss
• Duration: 01:05:50
• Published: 2016-09-16 21:15

Brian Kardell (@briankardell) joins Erik, Justin, and Danny on the panel along with our guest Marcy Sutton (@MarcySutton) in a discussion on WAI ARIA attributes & how we should or shouldn’t be using these in the context of our applications.

Resources

• Marcy’s EggHead.io class - https://egghead.io/courses/start-building-accessible-web-applications-today
• AXE 2.0 - http://www.deque.com/blog/introducing-axe-2-0/
• Best practices - https://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/#toc
• Examples - https://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-practices-20090224/#aria_ex
• Smashing article from 2014 - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/07/the-wai-forward/
• Getting started - http://a11yproject.com/posts/getting-started-aria/
• Harvard University guide to online accessibility - http://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/use-accessible-design-patterns
• Marcy’s performance post - https://marcysutton.com/accessibility-and-performance/
• Free course on Web Accessibility - https://www.udacity.com/course/web-accessibility--ud891
• Chrome A11y Inspector - http://bit.ly/chrome-a11y
• JSAir on Axe - https://javascriptair.com/episodes/2016-07-13/
• Accessibility API’s by Leonie Watson - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/03/web-accessibility-with-accessibility-api/
• Web AIM screen reader survey - http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey6/
• What does accessibility supported mean? https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2016/08/what-does-accessibility-supported-mean/