WordCamp Montclair

Sources & Links from the presentation

• Tools for testing and learning about WCAG
  • Beginner
    • Slide 17 – Web Accessibility Checklist
    • Slide 18 – A11y Project Checklist
  • Moderate
    • Slide 19 – This Is WCAG
    • Slide 20 – Accessibility Not-Checklist
    • Post-presentation addition: SiteLint
  • Advanced
    • Slide 21 – Magenta A11y
  • Slide 22 – General
    • WCAG Explanations
    • WCAG
    • WCAG Examples
  • Slide 23 – The WCAG Accessibility Helper (Now called NEWT, The Nifty Evaluator for WCAG Testing)
  • Slide 24 – Automatic Scanners
    • Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker
    • Deque Devtools
    • Accessible Web
    • WebAIM Wave Extension
• Slide 25 – https://overnightwebsite.com/links/

Session Description

What are the best resources to actually understand what’s needed to make a website accessible? How do you know what you can “ignore”?

Perceivable, operable, understandable, robust. Sounds good, right? But what does that actually mean? As a designer, what do you need to know? A content writer, a developer. What parts are important to know at what times? Are there other ways to organize these guidelines to better represent the different parts of website building, rather than through these principles that drive the WCAG?

We’ll dive into some tools that help us understand these guidelines, and how we can think about these concepts in ways that are a little easier to understand.