Good Habits: Coding for Accessibility - WordCamp San Francisco 2014

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@joedolson Good Habits Coding for Accessibility

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Good HabitsCoding for Accessibility

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Is web accessibility hard?

Yeah, you’re right. Of course it is.

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How to make Accessibility Easy

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How to make Accessibility Easy

● Buttons are <button>

● Links are <a>

● Images are meaningless.

● Label. All. The. Things.

● Focus, focus - who’s got the focus?

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How to make Accessibility Hard

● Blame the technology

● Leave it for later

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/* This is wrong, but I’ll fix it later. */

Don’t write code you know

you’ll need to fix later.