In which Liz Jackson tells us she wishes people viewed accessibility as an opportunity to engage, rather than a legal compliance thing.

Download file “E078 - Interview with Liz Jackson - Part 1” | Duration: 25:24 | Guest: Liz Jackson | Series: A11y Rules Podcast

Eric tells us accessibility shouldn’t be just technical curiosity. It’s about people.

Download file “E63 - Interview with Eric Bailey - Part 2” | Duration: 27:49 | Guest: Eric Bailey | Series: A11y Rules Podcast

Emily Lewis said: Accessibility is not about screen readers or keyboard navigation or code. It’s about people. And them being able to access information and resources, community… all of it

Download file “E091- Interview with Emily Lewis - Part 2” | Duration: 29:31 | Guest: Emily Lewis | Series: A11y Rules Podcast

Marcy tells us that it’s important for folks in the accessibility community to listen to developers’ needs. She also states that we ought to be more positive, and to stop making people feel bad about accessibility!

Download file “E64 - Interview with Marcy Sutton - Part 1” | Duration: 28:48 | Guest: Marcy Sutton | Series: A11y Rules Podcast

Stephanie Walter tells us that designers should provide a roadmap to their design for the developer, but in many projects, there just isn’t time to do that.

Download file “E082 - Interview with Stephanie Walter - Part 1” | Duration: 25:58 | Guest: Stephanie Walter | Series: A11y Rules Podcast

Eric says that accessibility “is a foundational principle of the web. Like literally the web is built on accessibility. The original specs don’t necessarily call it that, but that’s an organizing principle of the web. And to try to ignore it or overcome it is a lot like trying to paddle upstream”.

Download file “E52 - Interview with Eric Meyer - Part 2” | Duration: 26:52 | Guest: Eric Meyer | Series: A11y Rules Podcast

Alli tells us how experiencing lack of accessibility for a classmate of hers in the built environment helped her understand the importance of accessibility on the web.

Download file “E74 - Interview with Alli Berry - Part 1” | Duration: 26:25 | Guest: Alli Berry | Series: A11y Rules Podcast

Eric talks about accessibility, of course, and semantics, and frameworks, and more! The web prioritises ubiquity over consistency and a lot of these– there have been a lot of attempts to prioritise consistency over ubiquity.

Download file “E51 - Interview with Eric Meyer - Part 1” | Duration: 31:16 | Guest: Eric Meyer | Series: A11y Rules Podcast

In which Ire tells us that she thinks convincing framework developers to implement accessibility will have more impact than trying to change individual developers’ minds.

Download file “E69 - Interview with Ire Aderinokun - Part 2” | Duration: 26:06 | Guest: Ire Aderinokun | Series: A11y Rules Podcast

Amberley defines web accessibility as “building for the web in ways that ensure it’s usable by everyone. There aren’t barriers to use for anyone. So, I would say it’s about digital equal access, kind of along the same lines as physical equal access. So, just putting people at the center of building for the web.”

Download file “E088 - Interview with Amberley Romo - Part 1” | Duration: 32:39 | Guest: Amberley Romo | Series: A11y Rules Podcast