Episode 10: Web Accessibility with Maria Lamardo

Shownotes [00:03:38] Maria explains the resources that people should know about, tools, and techniques in the accessibility space. [00:08:55] Color issues are touched on with accessibility tools and how to deal with it. An app called, “Color Oracle,” is brought up to help for the color impaired. [00:12:44] Chris mentions a utility that is very useful called, CUID, which generates unique ideas. [00:16:12] A trick is explained that is very useful if you don’t want attributes to be passed and a Chrome extension called Vimium is mentioned. [00:23:00] Maria saw a really great talk at an Accessibility Conference by CB Averitt that you should check out. [00:28:21] Chrome has an extension called, Focus Indicator, that Maria says, “It’s really cute.” Hear what it does. [00:29:57] The topic of accessibility “faux pas” of touch devices is discussed. [00:36:35] If you’re having to retrofit an app with accessibility find out where you can start and where are places you can go to get easy wins. [00:41:13] Accessible design from the beginning was touched on earlier, but now the discussion is on the bigger picture with layouts. [00:44:37] Screen readers and compatibility is touched on as well as WCAG resources which have really good coding examples. [00:47:33] If you want to see a cool YouTube series go check out Rob Dodson’s “A11ycasts!” Picks of the week: [00:50:05] Ari has two picks: A song called “The Light,” by The Album Leaf. Also, a song called, “Da Funk,” by Daft Punk. [00:50:33] Chris has two picks: A game called, “Disco Elysium,” and to protect against the COVID-19 virus using scarves and bandanas instead of surgical masks. [00:54:40] Elizabeth’s pick is a keyboard shortcut on VS code, Ctrl+G, on Mac and Windows. [00:56:57] Maria’s pick is that she let her dog lead her on a walk recently and he led them to a secret new dog park inside their neighborhood and it has changed her life! [00:58:01] Ben has two picks: Check out Maria’s talk at VueConf on Vue Mastery and the tv show, “Survivor” Season 33: Millennials Vs. Gen-X. Resources: Maria Lamardo's Twitter (https://twitter.com/marialamardo?lang=en) Maria Lamardo's Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marialamardo) Pendo (https://www.pendo.io/) Color Oracle (https://colororacle.org/) Vimium (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbaibhgnhhndojpepiihcmeb?hl=en) Cuid (https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid) Focus Indicator (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focus-indicator/heeoeadndnhebmfebjccbhmccmaoedlf?hl=en-US) CB Averitt (https://www.deque.com/blog/author/cb/) Vue Enterprise Boilerplate base-link component (https://github.com/chrisvfritz/vue-enterprise-boilerplate/blob/master/src/components/_base-link.vue) GitHub Ally Organization () Rob Dodson-A11ycasts on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYkxOF6rcICWx0C9LVWWVqvHlYJyqw7g) Vue School-Web Accessibility with Maria (https://vueschool.io/courses/web-accessibility-fundamentals) “The Light” by The Album Leaf (https://open.spotify.com/album/1nNiEgpGPe2Sxy9fCxlIYW?highlight=spotify:track:3YlJKAnvDjHNFjFVy2MXMG) “Da Funk” by Daft Punk (https://open.spotify.com/album/5uRdvUR7xCnHmUW8n64n9y?highlight=spotify:track:0MyY4WcN7DIfbSmp5yej5z) Disco Elysium (https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium/) VS Code shortcut (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/tips-and-tricks) Web Accessibility Talk at VueConf with Maria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHubDB6DIfE) “Survivor”-Season 33 (https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/episodes/33/) Sponsor: Linode (https://promo.linode.com/vue/) Special Guest: Maria Lamardo.