#A11y Rules PodcastConversations around web accessibility
Brennan says “people who create and teach and have disabilities actually use this stuff. We’re out in the world creating things while using the products that you’re making. It can’t just be the first layer of the system that you’re making meet bare level of accessibility.”
[I have] Three main ones [disabilities], ADHD, bipolar type two and chronic pain. The ADHD is definitely the one that gets me in the most trouble on the web, it’s gotten more and more inaccessible over my lifetime.
Please don’t design things in parallax. I mean, I have ADHD, but I have also a slight impairment that makes me want to vomit when things move too fast on the web.
Most people don’t even consider that people like me could have an issue with their website. They don’t even think about it.
I have ADHD. And I see this as sometimes a really frustrating impairment, and sometimes a really nice thing to have.
Alex says that “running into the same barriers every time a new platform or app is released is very frustrating. It’s realizing some of my students are struggling with the same kind of issues I was struggling with 30 years ago when I was a student.”