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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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
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    ● 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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