Accessibility is essential for developers and organizations that want to create high-quality websites and web tools, and not exclude people from using their products and services.
According to the CDC, 26 % of the US population has difficulty accessing digital information due to living with a disability. Depending on the website and user’s needs, that could mean that some sites are leaving 1 in 4 people behind due to frustrating, inconsistent, or inaccessible user experiences.
In this presentation, we will walk through some of the different components of a website and discuss how we as users, designers, content creators, and developers can bring our websites up to 508/WCAG AA compliance. We will also review some automated testing tools and demonstrate how to use them to manually assess our sites.