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Episode 519: Joel Hawksley on Web Accessibility
The Ruby on Rails Podcast
⏱️ 38 minutes
📅 Published Jul 10, 2024
Show Notes
Joel is a staff software engineer at GitHub, working on user interface architecture and strategy. For the last several years, he has been part of the team working to improve the accessibility of GitHub.com. He also leads development of the ViewComponent framework. Today, he joins the show to teach us about Web Accessibility
Show Notes
Joel's RailsConf Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2zlvE_Yj8
WCAG Guidelines - https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/
Axe Devtools - https://www.deque.com/axe/devtools/
Aria Live - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-live
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