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Web development and accessibility go hand-in-hand as developers have a critical role to play in creating accessible websites. Web developers need to consider accessibility as an integral part of their development process, and ensure that the websites they create are usable by everyone, including those with disabilities.
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People

Alex
Chen
Product designer & accessibility advocate. Runs the Access Guide website and has made many resources about accessibility.

Eric
Bailey
An inclusive design advocate, writer, developer, and speaker.

Gertrude
Nyenyeshi
Gertrude is a Frontend Engineer building accessible and inclusive user interfaces for a wide range of users. She is the Founder of Accessibility Africa, championing the advancement of digital accessibility in the African continent.

Rachele
DiTulliio
Accessibility Engineer who has a blog that discusses many aspects of digital accessibility and testing.

Sara
Soueidan
Inclusive design engineer and trainer that works with companies and agencies around the world, building Web user interfaces and digital products with focus on responsive design, accessibility, performance, and cutting-edge tech.

Sarah
Fossheim
A front-end developer and inclusive designer passionate about accessibility, dataviz, and building ethical technology.

Scott
O’Hara
Developer and Engineer for Microsoft focusing on making the web more accessible. Write about web development, largely focusing on accessibility.
Podcasts
Organisations
Tools
W3C Design System
This design system documents the styles, components and templates available to use on your website.
Articles
Accessibility options for Floating Action Buttons
How do they work when navigating with alternative inputs?
6 Quick tests you can do to test your forms for accessibility
Testing a form for accessibility can be boiled down to 6 high level goals.
7 tips for devs and designers to set your accessibility efforts up for success
In this blog post, we will explore various strategies and best practices to bridge the gap between designers and developers focusing on accessibility.
A Guide To Accessible Form Validation
In this guide, Sandrina breaks down what we need to take into consideration, so that nobody gets stuck on an inaccessible invalid field.
A Guide to Troublesome UI Components
A short guide on how to make custom selects, modals, autosuggest, date pickers, carousels and dynamically-loaded content more accessible
App accessibility: Commonly overlooked accessibility practices for mobile apps
Accessible websites are still in the minority, but accessible apps are even rarer.
Best practices for a chatbot
Some of Orange’s best practices for designing and developing a chatbot, it includes examples.
Better Accessible Names
How to make the accessible names more user friendly.
Chatbot Accessibility Playbook
Helpful guide on ways to build an accessible chatbot.
Creating an Inclusive eCommerce Experience: Best Practices
Discover best practices for creating an inclusive eCommerce experience. Learn how to optimise your website for accessibility and expand your reach.
Designing and Coding for Voice
An overview of simple interactions for voice command or speech recognition software users, and the accessibility barriers that can emerge.
How to build accessible main navigation?
This article contains a guide to building an accessible main navigation of a website in 5 steps. The key takeaways of this guide are HTML semantics, WAI-ARIA, CSS, and JS for accessibility.
How to make charts and graphs more accessible
In this article, we’ll start with what charts and graphs need to be considered accessible. But, just because it’s accessible, doesn’t mean it’s the best user experience for all types of users. So, we’ll also go over opportunities for creating more usable data visualisations.
How to make interactive charts accessible
Interactive charts can transform data into compelling stories, offering valuable insights at a glance. But what happens when these visual tools are inaccessible to those with visual impairments? In this post, we’ll show you how to ensure your interactive charts are accessible to all users, regardless of their abilities.
Inclusive Components
A blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive web interfaces, piece by piece.
Inclusive Design Principles
These Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. They are intended to give anyone involved in the design and development of websites a broad approach to inclusive design
Intro To Why Accessibility is Important for Good SEO
A 4-part blog series about Accessibility and its interconnection with SEO.
Key Considerations for Accessibility in WordPress
This presentation covers key considerations for building accessible WordPress websites, including recommendations for plugins and policies that your organisation can enact to better guide content managers into maintaining their site’s accessibility.
Making chatbots accessible
Chatbots can be one of the most frustrating and inaccessible parts of a website. They can also create a quick and wonderful customer experience. It’s all about how you make them…
Strikethrough Accessibility
On e-commerce websites, a strikethrough element is often used to indicate a price is no longer valid and often has a reduced price next to it. The problem is that most screen readers don’t output the strikethrough semantics.
Talk: Developing an Accessible 'Add to cart' Flow
A talk from Axe-con 2022 by Nic Chan
The Potentially Dangerous Non-Accessibility Of Cookie Notices
Cookie notices have the potential to violate web accessibility laws. In this piece, a WCAG auditor shares some cookie banner error patterns that can massively hurt a page’s overall conformance.
Why REM should be your go-to unit for font sizing?
Accessibility Tips and Tricks for Designers and Developers