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Laura Kalbag — Accessibility for Everyone

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Laura Kalbag is a designer from the UK. She’s one-third of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, Laura works on a web privacy tool called Better. Her first book, Accessibility for Everyone, is published by A Book Apart.


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    • Time Jumps
    • 2:30 How’d the idea for your book come about?
    • 4:25 Is it an introduction to accessibility?
    • 6:50 It’s more than just good HTML and CSS on websites.
    • 11:00 Any techniques for convincing a team or manager to push for accessibility?
    • 12:30 Diversity helps us understand that people use the web differently than us.
    • 15:34 What other ways do people use the web?
    • 18:40 Accessibility can be expensive but there are so many things you can do that are free.
    • 20:38 Learning HTML better is a basic way to help accessibility.
    • 21:48 A number of sites that rely on Javascript to click a link.
    • 24:10 Websites taking over the browser scroll bar.
    • 25:10 CSS is so easy to style elements like website buttons.
    • 27:20 What services and tools are out there to help people with accessibility testing?
    • 29:25 In order to have good UX, you need to have good accessibility.
      • Links:
      • Christopher Schmitt
      • Christopher Schmitt on Twitter
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      • 📘 Accessibility for Everyone
      • JK Rowling Defends Laura Kalbag from Mansplainer on Twitter
      • Matt May on Twitter
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      • WAVE Accessibility Check
      • Knowbility
      • Ind.ie
      • Better.fyi
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