Ask an Expert: Web Accessibility 101 | A11Y

🎓 View our courses: https://scrimba.com/links/all-courses This week we are joined by Senior Accessibility Trainer Carie Fisher. She's here to give you the lowdown how to make your sites and apps accessible and inclusive! 🖥 Contents 🖥 0:00 - Introduction 1:00 - Carrie’s introduces herself and her background 2:00 - Working as an accessibility trainer 3:10 - What’s the one thing you wish everybody knew about web accessibility? 6:40 - Main categories of disabilities, and what we can do to make our sites accessible to those who have disabilities in those categories 14:12 - What can you do as a starting front-end developer to improve web accessibility, since you're working with an existing code base and not writing it yourself? 17:50 - What are the pillar stones of web accessibility that every web developer should be aware of? 20:24 - How do you sell accessibility to a client? 24:30 - Do you have any suggestions on sites for accessible fonts for dyslexia that are free? 31:45 - Google Fonts 33:45 - What is “AT compatible”? 36:00 - Are there any good sites or tools for checking websites/apps for accessibility over a number of potential disabilities? 40:55 - Can you tell us a little about accessibility overlays and whether we should be using them? 47:00 - How does color contrast affect accessibility and what can we do to ensure that we get it right? 50:22 - Demo sites made to be bad - testing accessibility using Color Contrast Analyzer 54:08 - How about prefers-color-scheme? 59:20 - Reduced motion and how it can help 💻Check out Scrimba’s interactive learning platform: Scrimba: https://scrimba.com/ 🐦Say hi on Twitter: Scrimba: https://twitter.com/scrimba Leanne: https://twitter.com/RybaLeanne Carie Fisher: https://twitter.com/cariefisher