1. Accessibility, Integrated
Web Accessibility in Roles, Project Planning and Quality Assurance
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2. Intro! Who are you? Where are you? What do you do?
How does accessibility fit?
What’s one goal you have for today?
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3. I’ll Start! Rob Carr ABLE Tech, Okie State U.
Accessibility training and technical assistance (think: consulting)
It’s the point
Send you all away more comfortable with accessibility and ready to work it into your shop and processes
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4. Today! Accessibility and Product Influencers
Accessibility in project planning
Testing to see how well plans come together
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5. Framing
We think awful code is written by awful devs. But in reality, it’s written by reasonable devs in awful circumstances.
Sarah Mei, from the Twitterverse
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6. Product Influencers Start from your end product and work back
Think about who influences the final work
Don’t forget about plugins and third party
Look for stuff that you don’t control directly
A11y is a part of design already. Let's talk about how to make sure that our influencers of design are influencers of a11y too
A11y is Inherently Shared Responsibility
Lots of work for one person or department to "do a11y"
Difficult if platforms purchased outside of your department don't support a11y
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7. Conversation and Strategy
Who are influencers?
How does accessibility align with their role(s)?
What is the best approach to use to help make alignment happen?
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8. Messaging Civil rights Compliance? Yes, but… ADA
Section 503/504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Compliance? Yes, but…
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9. “But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.”
Compliance
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10. Other Approaches Design and dev work is about the audience
Diversify diversity efforts
Remember why the civil rights laws exist: to stop discrimination
Accessibility is a marker of quality
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11. 100% Accessible
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12. Doing accessibility
Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail, amirite?

13. A11y in Planning and Tools
Wireframes
Mockups
Style guides
Other?
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14. Quality Assurance and Testing
But, not only at the end
Tools and techniques
WAVE site, extension, toolbar (
Colour Contrast Analyser (
Inspect element…in the browser
Keyboard (Tab, Shift, Arrows, Enter, Spacebar)
Assistive technology
Screen reader
Speech to text (Dragon, for example)
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15. Other Integration Points
Procurement and use decisions
Social media!
Templates
Patterns
Libraries
Personas
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16. More Resources and Reading
W3C WAI Accessibility Docs (
Web Axe list of color contrast tools (
W3C ARIA Authoring Practices (
Lots of examples and code for things like accordions, tab panels
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17. Contact
Rob Carr, Oklahoma ABLE (only Twitter)
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