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5 Ways to Advocate for Accessibility

Sparkbox
April 21, 2020

5 Ways to Advocate for Accessibility

There is a lot of information out there on why accessibility is important or how to make websites accessible. But even when you are armed with that knowledge, it can be hard to figure out how to advocate for accessibility on your team. Because of this, I am going to talk about how you can make an accessible web through prioritizing and integrating web accessibility into your process.

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April 21, 2020
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  1. Accessibility
    Advocacy

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  2. The how of advocating
    for accessibility in a
    project

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  3. Small everyday things
    we can do as web
    developers to advocate
    for accessibility

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  4. 1. Add suggestions for
    accessibility solutions
    to tasks

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  5. 2. Add info on how to
    manually test with
    assistive technology

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  6. 3. Offer to pair with someone on
    accessibility tasks

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  7. 4. Demo an
    accessibility fix

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  8. 5. Don’t make
    “Accessibility” cards

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  9. Takeaways
    1. Add suggestions for accessibility solutions to tasks
    2. Add info on how to manually test with assistive
    technology
    3. Offer to pair with someone on accessibility tasks
    4. Demo an accessibility fix
    5. Don’t make “Accessibility” cards

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  10. Resources
    Images Designed by Freepik
    ● https://seesparkbox.com/foundry/category/accessibility
    ● bit.ly/test-color-contrast
    ● bit.ly/vo-shortcuts
    ● bit.ly/nvda-shortcuts
    ● bit.ly/keyboard-testing

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