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  Your CMS is an accessibility assistant!

  by Hidde de Vries

  recorded on July 07, 2021

  Your CMS plays a decisive part in creating accessible content, suggest the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG). Whenever a content designer creates content, the CMS could help with the accessibility of it. For instance, when a designer drops in an image, the CMS could point to the ideal text alternative or calculate the consequences for color contrast. In this talk, you will learn more about what ATAG is and how, with ATAG in mind, CMSes can personally assist content editors on their way to a more accessible website.

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  When and how to use the `<section>` element

  by Martin Underhill

  recorded on May 05, 2021

  What on earth is a `<section>` element actually for? How do we use it properly? In what ways is `<section>` different to other elements like `<article>` and `<main>`? The answer lies with assistive technologies like screen reader software, and Martin is here to explain all.

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  Usability: the nexus of accessibily and design

  by Kevin Kalahiki

  recorded on November 04, 2020

  As a developer, this scenario might sound familiar: You are puzzling over a design, trying to figure out that perfect combination of semantic markup and ARIA you'll need to build it. You spend hours on it but the deeper you get, the more you ask yourself, “Does this thing that I’m building even make sense?” You go to the designer to talk it through but end up in an uncomfortable conversation where you’re pretty sure that neither of you understood where the other was coming from. If Accessibility is the practice of designing and building things that can be used by everyone then Accessibility has to be present in the design before it can be built. And what you might not know is that everything you already know about Accessibility can be used as a way to talk about the troubled parts of a design in a way that designers understand. Accessibility and Design are like two languages that share a common root: Usability. In this episode I’ll talk about some common issues and how you can bring them up with your design partners in ways that you’ll both understand.**

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  ARIA Serious?

  by Eric Eggert

  recorded on October 02, 2019

  Knowbility's Eric Eggert discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly of using Accessible Rich Internet Applications for coding and how important it is for developers to understand the complexities of ARIA before showing it off in the cleverly titled, "ARIA Serious?".

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  Data Verbalization

  by Doug Schepers

  recorded on September 04, 2019

  In this episode, SVG and dataviz expert Doug Schepers wants to let you know that data visualization doesn't have to be visual! Don't assume that a chart or diagram can't be made accessible. In this talk, you'll learn how the brain processes data visualizations, how we can leverage this to work with other senses, and tips and best practices for making complex graphical content available to all. We'll also offer a direct comparisonon different tools and software that make it easy to accessibilify your diagrams.

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  What makes an accessible card?

  by Rian Rietveld

  recorded on August 07, 2019

  What makes an accessible card? In this August 2019 edition, Rian Rietveld discusses the considerations for creating an accessible card from the basics of construction through title, thumbnail, date, excerpt, tags, categories and read more link.

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  Performance and the Accessibility Tree

  by Eric Bailey

  recorded on July 03, 2019

  Accessibility is a practice that touches on many aspects of good web design and development, including performance. In this talk, Boston based designer Eric Bailey highlights opportunities and techniques to improve your website or web app's performance by embracing an accessible, inclusive mindset.

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  Designing and coding for low vision

  by Mallory van Achterberg

  recorded on June 05, 2019

  Mallory van Achterberg, senior accessibility consultant for Tenon.io, discusses the dos and don'ts of designing and coding for low vision.

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  Conducting Accessibility User Research: What's Really Needed?

  by Michele Williams

  recorded on May 01, 2019

  Michele Williams, PhD, Senior UX Researcher for Accessibility at Pearson's Higher Education Department, discusses effective usability testing and research in a presentation entitled, "Conducting Accessibility User Research: What's Really Needed?"

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  Dark Adventures in Mobile Accessibility

  by Shell Little

  recorded on April 03, 2019

  Shell explains why the mobile space is so difficult to work in and provides concrete examples of things that would technically pass in WCAG, but are really bad experience for users with various disabilities with a focus on cognitive disabilities.

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  The Interaction of Color Related Guidelines in WCAG 2.1

  by Luis Garcia

  recorded on March 06, 2019

  Luis Garcia, the senior product manager for accessibility at eBay, discusses the various color-related WCAG criteria and how fixing one might create issues in other aspects of accessibility.

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  PDF/UA and WCAG 2.1: Always Complimentary

  by Adam Spencer

  recorded on February 06, 2019

  One of the greatest misconceptions in the world of document accessibility is, "my document needs to be WCAG compliant." Adam Spencer explores the similarities, differences and language that needs to be understood when making PDF documents accessible and compliant for PDF/UA.

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  Accessibility Mechanics

  by Jared Smith

  recorded on January 02, 2019

  Jared Smith, Associate Director of WebAIM, discusses the interplay between page content (including ARIA), browser parsing/rendering, accessibility APIs, and assistive technology - something that is increasingly important for developers to have a sense of when implementing and testing accessibility.

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  Single switch usability.

  by Thomas Logan

  recorded on December 05, 2018

  Thomas Logan, founder and CEO of Equal Entry, discusses single switch usability and its applications across technology, specificially the Google Song Maker app.

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  Making custom selects accessible.

  by Gerard Cohen

  recorded on November 07, 2018

  "But that's impossible," you might say! They're too hard to make accessible, just use a native select! Well, that's all true but that didn't stop Gerard from trying & not just for the sake of styling, but to provide a better UX. Find out how he did it!

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  Making a Podcast WCAG 2.1 Compliant

  by Nicolas Steenhout

  recorded on October 03, 2018

  Nicolas Steenhout, host of A11y Rules, a podcast about web accessibility, discusses how he made his podcast and its accompanying website more accessible.