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Web Accesibility

Guest lecturer: Digital Accessibility Specialist Tobias Christian Jensen.

Web Accessibility is important to learn about so that we can make sure that the Web is open and inclusive for all. This class will center around key concepts of accesability.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide a set of recommendations that make Web content more accessible. These guidelines are very comprehensive and are categorised according to the following principles:

1. Perceivable - information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive.
2. Operable - User interface components and navigation must be operable.
3. Understandable - Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable.
4. Robust - Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted by by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.

Web Content Accesibility Guidelines (WCAG)

• What is WCAG
• Accesible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)
• Using WAI-ARIA
• Page Structure Tutorials

The A11y Project

Accesability on the web is a living, breathing, constantly changing phenomea. Therefore it is all the more useful to keep an eye on The Accessibility (A11Y) Project. This is a community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier by open-sourcing guides and resource lists.

• The A11Y Project

Reading

• What is WCAG
• Accesible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)
• Using WAI-ARIA
• Page Structure Tutorials
• The A11Y Project

Additional Reading

• If you're interested in diving deeper into the topic here's a comprehensive lis of free resources out there on the topic.

• edX & Coursera course on Web Accesability

• Udacity & Google course on Web Accesability for frontend developers

• A good example of bad accesability