Accessibility Mechanics
by Jared Smith
recorded on January 02, 2019
Transcript
[Intro Music].
>> MICHAEL BECK: Welcome to technica11y, the webinar series devoted to the technical challenges of making the web accessible. This month’s presenter is Jared Smith, Associate Director at WebAIM. And now our host and moderator, Karl Groves.
>> KARL GROVES: All right, hello. And welcome to the January 2019 edition of technica11y and Happy New Year to everyone!
We have our guest here, as the introduction said, Jared Smith. Jared is one of my heroes of accessibility. I’ve known Jared through the WebAIM list since 2003 and the WebAIM website, the WebAIM discussion list and Jared in specific have been huge resources for me personally since that time. And so I’m extremely happy to see him here. Now, Jared’s discussion on the technica11y webinar is going to be the interplay between page content including ARIA, the browser parsing, rendering, accessibility APIs and assistive technologies and this is something I feel pretty passionate about. I have a presentation I give that discusses this that I try to do as often as possible because I think this is core knowledge that everybody in web development needs to [...]