Power Up Your React App with A11y
taught by: Mika Gurrola
Session Summary
Devs are the definition of a power user, for example: we’ve memorized all the hotkeys for our common actions and use tools that make our jobs easier and efficient. What if we extended that experience to the users of our apps?
Description
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Accessibility is about more than just meeting compliance standards. It also has been shown to improve usability. If your goal is to create products for as many people as possible to use in as many ways as possible, this class will help you to empower your users to do more with less effort. In this session, we will go over the many ways we can improve our react apps for everyone when we develop with accessibility in mind. You’ll learn that sometimes an “a11y” support criteria turns into a product feature. You’ll also learn how to resolve anti patterns that we sometimes build without realizing. We’ll go over some react packages that make including a11y a breeze, and review how we can test for a11y in our react apps with manual testing and review some elements of automated testing in react.
Practical Skills
- Learn patterns and anti patterns to improve usability in your react app
- Learn patterns and anti patterns to improve usability in your react app
- Learn how to manually test your react app with automatic testing tools and manual testing tools