Web Accessibility for Developers

Learn how to assess a website for accessibility concerns. Test, triage, and troubleshoot repairs to improve accessibility where needed.

Introduction

• Take the mystery out of web accessibility
• Why accessibility matters

1. Accessibly Access a Website

• Your keyboard and computer
• NVDA and JAWS

2. Understand Accessibility Standards

• Introduction to WCAG
• Perceivable
• Operable
• Understandable and robust
• Challenge: Find information on WCAG
• Solution: Find information on WCAG

3. Accessibility Tools

• Manual testing
• Automated testing
• Helper tools

4. Test and Triage Accessibility Issues

• Identify conformance goals
• Do automated testing
• Do targeted manual testing
• Triage issues
• Challenge: Run axe on a website
• Solution: Run axe on a website

5. Repair and Test Accessibility Issues Again

• Repair accessibility issues
• Retest after repairs

Conclusion

• Next steps