Todd Libby - Making the web equal and accessible
Season 4, Episode 2 | October 12, 2021This week on the podcast, we have Todd Libby talking about his work making the web equal and accessible for everyone. He drops a ton of resources (check the show notes!) tips on how to get started, and talks about how he's continually learning on the job.
Todd Libby
Todd is a professional web developer, designer, and accessibility advocate for 22 years under many different technologies starting with HTML/CSS, Perl, and PHP, Todd has been an avid learner of web technologies for over 40 years starting with many flavors of BASIC all the way to React/Vue. Todd is also a member of the W3C working with groups on WCAG Silver (3.0). When not coding or advocating accessibility, you'll usually find Todd tweeting about (or eating) lobster rolls and accessibility.
- toddl.dev
- @toddlibby on Twitter
Show Notes:
We're welcoming Todd Libby to give us an intro to accessibility and what it means to make the web equal. Todd, a professional web developer, designer, and accessibility advocate for 22 years, provides a plethora of resources that can help everyone to get started and talks about how to advocate for accessibility and equality on projects.
Show Notes:
Things/People mentioned in the episode:
- Making A Strong Case for Accessibility by Todd Libby
- Front Page Express
- Designing with Web Standards
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Cass Faris
- Chris DeMars
A11y Learning Resources:
Tools:
- WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
- axe accessibility toolkit
- pa11y command line
- Bookmarklets by Ian Loyyd and Paul J Adams
- Microsoft a11y insights
- Firefox a11y devtools
- Lighthouse automated testing
- Contrast Ratio tool by Lea Verou
- Colour Contrast Analyser
Todd's steps for manual testing:
- Mouse only
- Keyboard only
- Squint test
- Screen readers
- Voice over in Safari
- NVDA and JAWS on Windows
- Orca on Linux
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