Laura Kalbag — Accessibility for Everyone

Laura Kalbag is a designer from the UK. She’s one-third of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, Laura works on a web privacy tool called Better. Her first book, Accessibility for Everyone, is published by A Book Apart. This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by: CSS Dev Conf — Conference dedicated to CSS and its super friend technologies like JavaScript, Sass, npm, and more. A limited supply of Early Bird Tickets now on sale. Register now! UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now! Time Jumps 2:30 How’d the idea for your book come about? 4:25 Is it an introduction to accessibility? 6:50 It’s more than just good HTML and CSS on websites. 11:00 Any techniques for convincing a team or manager to push for accessibility? 12:30 Diversity helps us understand that people use the web differently than us. 15:34 What other ways do people use the web? 18:40 Accessibility can be expensive but there are so many things you can do that are free. 20:38 Learning HTML better is a basic way to help accessibility. 21:48 A number of sites that rely on Javascript to click a link. 24:10 Websites taking over the browser scroll bar. 25:10 CSS is so easy to style elements like website buttons. 27:20 What services and tools are out there to help people with accessibility testing? 29:25 In order to have good UX, you need to have good accessibility. Links: Christopher Schmitt Christopher Schmitt on Twitter Laura Kalbag on Twitter Laura Kalbag 📘 Accessibility for Everyone JK Rowling Defends Laura Kalbag from Mansplainer on Twitter Matt May on Twitter 📘 Design for Real Life W3C Validator WAVE Accessibility Check Knowbility Ind.ie Better.fyi Non Breaking Space Show on TuneIn Non Breaking Space Show for Android Non Breaking Space Show on Google Play Non Breaking Space Show on iTunes Non Breaking Space Show on Facebook 📺 Non Breaking Space Show on YouTube Non Breaking Space Show Newsletter