 Hello everyone, I'm Paul Lewis. I'm coming to you live from Amsterdam and I have with me Bob Dodd aka the Doddle Max as I call him You can call him Rob Dodson. Whatever you like Rob, you did a talk today on accessibility Which I sat with you while I sat there watching And I was sort of thinking you know be great to kind of summarize for people who are watching this Just kind of the one thing or the one group of things you'd have them do if they're completely new to accessibility Yeah, so I think if you're if you're totally new to accessibility The one thing that for me was was really useful It felt like kind of a transition point for me was actually sitting down and learning to use a screen reader So if you're on a Mac voiceover is just there. It's free if you're on Windows. You can use in VDA. It's also free You just download it. It's open source and the reason why is because I feel like it's one thing to be adding You know attributes and semantic elements and sort of thinking maybe you're doing the right thing It's another thing entirely to actually fire up that screen reader and then navigate the page and verify like cool I'm doing I'm using the tool and and I can see that it's working properly with my code. So that is that is a So even then so let's say you do that and you're like wow, I've got accessibility issues Like do we have any kind of cheat sheet or wave for somebody to kind of go? Hey, you know what what things are expected from me if I'm making a checkbox or I'm making my own magical whatever thing Yeah, so for that we have the web content accessibility guidelines or WCAG, which is I know it's very very fancy sounding. Yeah, and The which is this it's amazingly huge document. I should say it's an amazing and huge document That covers really like what it is for something to be accessible and it's built almost in like a checklist fashion But it's very very very detailed covers a lot of things And so what's what's useful is there's a group called web aim which has taken that and Distilled it down to a much sort of easier to follow checklist specifically for web developers The nice thing about learning this is that a lot of governments actually mandate WCAG compliance for For applications and things like that. So this is like the definitive source Like if you want to know what a checkbox should do This is the thing it'll tell you the keyboard support that it should have it also tell you all the aria stuff That it needs to have so so that's definitely the resource to go to the web aim checklist And when you need to you can drop into the WCAG to get those super super meaty details And then I guess last but not least there's obviously there's lots of tools There's lots of resources. There's lots of things that you could read besides that checklist that could actually help you out on a day-to-day with your workflow Kind of where would you point people towards if they completely need to this? Where would you actually send them to actually learn more? Yeah, so Conveniently enough Alice Boxholt. Yes my teammate fellow engineer on Chrome and I have just finished a Udacity course It is a completely free course Multi-week course to teach you sort of the fundamentals of web accessibility So you can go there you can you can do that course you can if you know nothing about accessibility You're gonna finish that you're gonna be you know Much more along your path to being an accessibility wizard or badass or whatever. So definitely go check that out And then the other thing too is is we're gonna actually start putting more accessibility content on developers that Google.com web So that's a that's a plan for us to start Writing more about it and making sure that that you know when we're talking about progressive web apps We're talking about performance. We're also talking about accessibility making sure that that is a part of everybody's process Brilliant. Well, that's all we've got time for we're gonna chuck some links down into the description below We should include I guess the Udacity course and all the other things that we've talked about here Thank you so much for taking a bit of time out and I've been Paul catch you next time