MMT Tech Meetup November 2020 - Website Accessibility

MMT Tech Meetup - November 2020 featuring Website Accessibility

Website Accessibility plays a big role in development these days and it is essential to make sure what you build is available and useable by everyone. Leaving key aspects out of your development process, like accessibility, can affect people accessing your content, which is not recommended. It should be considered best practice to make sure your site has basic accessibility features. The meetup below goes through some of the things you should be considering.

Meetup agenda:

• Why be accessible? - (Graham Rees-Evans - Technical Manager, Consultant, and Training - Shaw Trust)
• Common Accessibility mistakes - (Ilesh Mistry - CMS Specialist and Kontent MVP - MMT Digital)
• How to use pa11y-ci to prevent accessibility issues? (Tomas Jakelis - Front-End Engineer - MMT Digital)
• Using Persona Profiles for Accessible Websites (Nadia Rasul - Sr. Front-end Developer & Accessibility Lead - Reason One)

This is the recording from the tech meetup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idwE0ENNoRA

This is the recording from the MMT Tech Meetup where we have the following content in this video:
00:00:00 - Welcome to the MMT Tech Meetups by Ilesh Mistry
00:03:12 - Why be accessible? by Graham Rees-Evans
00:29:15 - Common Accessibility mistakes by Ilesh Mistry
00:59:35 - How to use pa11y-ci to prevent accessibility issues? by Tomas Jakelis
01:32:42 - Using Persona Profiles for Accessible Websites by Nadia Rasul
01:59:47 - End

Useful links

• Common Accessibility Mistakes slides (https://www2.slideshare.net/IleshMistry/common-accessibility-mistakes-239544831)
• Common Accessibility Mistakes carousel video Video - Marcy Sutton: ”Garbage Pail Components” — Clarity 2019 https://youtu.be/MVzihFS1UQU?t=1208 - 00:20:20 to see the Carousel example from Ilesh's slides
• How to use pa11y-ci to prevent accessibility issues slides (https://www2.slideshare.net/TomasJakelis/mmt-tech-meetup-november-2020)
• Using Persona Profiles for Accessible Websites slides (https://www2.slideshare.net/nrasul/using-persona-profiles-for-accessible-websites)