Stop Guessing: The Accessibility Fixes That Matter Most
taught by: Chad Hester
Session Summary
Stop Guessing: The Accessibility Fixes That Matter Most is a practical, real-world session that focuses on accessibility issues that significantly affect users. Instead of attempting to fix everything at once, this session highlights the most important WCAG failures. It also shows how to quickly identify and prioritize the issues that are most crucial.
Description
Walk through the most common and problematic accessibility issues encountered in digital products.
Cover key WCAG failures like keyboard traps and lack of keyboard support and see how they cause substantial barriers to users.
Learn how to make forms more accessible with good labels, clear instructions, useful error messages.
Cover screen reader usability, like accessible names, roles and states to enable components to work properly with assistive technologies.
Introduction to A11yInspect and learn how to detect accessibility issues, determine their severity.
Practical Skills
- Participants will be able to recognize high-impact WCAG failures such as keyboard traps, lack of keyboard support, and frequent form accessibility problems.
- Participants will be able to assess screen reader usability by understanding accessible names, roles, and states.
- Participants will be able to leverage A11yInspect to identify accessibility problems, determine their severity, and make informed decisions about which fixes are most important.