Thursday
Room 6
13:40 - 14:40
Workshop (120 min)
Part 1/2: Accessibility: A Little Bit Better Is Better Than Nothing
You've heard accessibility is important in helping the world see your sites, but where are you supposed to start? It’s a big and complicated topic, enough to make some people throw up their hands and just give up on the concept entirely. But we can turn it from a terrifying mountain to a series of small hills when we think about marginal, gradual improvements.
In this workshop, Lemon will explain some fundamentals of HTML semantics and how they end up affecting the end users of your website. We’ll then do some live exercises improving the markup of some example code without changing anything about the design, and then describe some different types of impairments that your users could have, and practice taking some steps to get your content to those users.
Bring your laptop and come ready to rewrite some code, because we’re gonna start making gradual steps towards a more accessible internet, and we’re gonna start today.
Lemon 🍋
With a lifelong passion for the weirdness of the internet and a day job as the Front End Development Director for Savas Labs, Lemon spends his professional time making websites for money and his free time making websites for no money.
He's created a number of stupid things for the internet, like all the games on kinda.fun, the wikiHow game damn.dog, the Google Autocomplete game idiots.win, and a bunch of other things of questionable use. He also hosts a podcast that looks at some of the internet's weirder subcultures. It is not safe for your work, unless you work somewhere really cool.