Conversations around web accessibility
Interviews with people involved in one way or another with web accessibility.
In the second part of this interview, Jamie tells us that we disable our users. It’s our fault, not theirs! And many more super interesting things.
I’m talking with Jamie Knight, an autistic developer at the BBC. One of the things that I loved was Jamie saying that “At the BBC, we don’t make it accessible because of the number of people that need it, we do it because it’s the right think to do”.
Glenda speaks of the importance of mentoring “fresh blood” in the accessibility field. She also explains how she gets frustrated by accessibility going forward two steps, and backwards one step.
Glenda Sims is Deque’s lead of Accessibility Methodology Practice and Quality. She has been doing digital accessibility since before 2000, and it’s her passion. She used to say she was the self-appointed accessibility Godess!
Kris Anne tells us that accessibility is possible, it’s not that difficult, and it’s not earth-shattering!
Kris Anne Kinney works as an accessibility specialist for Educational Testing Services, a company that is a leader in assessments. The importance of accessibility in online testing can’t be understated. Kris Anne tells us a little bit about the challenges of going from paper-based to online assessments.
This is the second part of my chat with Jon Gibbins. He suggests that the ever increasing speed of new technologies, hardware and software also increases the risk of accessibility being forgotten or left behind in the shuffle.
I’m talking with Jon Gibbins, a developer and designer who took the plunge into accessibility many years ago. Jon suggests that one of the biggest barriers to accessibility is the lack of support in various frameworks.
Continuing my talk with Andrea Skeries, who tells us that testing tools might be a way to get developers interested in learning more about accessibility.
I had a most interesting conversation with Andrea Skeries, a front end web developer and designer. Her goal is to spread accessibility like a virus! She also tells us, among other things, that we aren’t going to understand the user experience of our product until we get users with disabilities to do testing.
