Episode 10: Web Accessibility with Maria Lamardo - a podcast by The Enjoy the Vue Team

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[00:03:38]Maria explains the resources that people should know about, tools, and techniques in the accessibility space.
[00:08:55]Color issues are touched on with accessibility tools and how to deal with it. An app called, “Color Oracle,” is brought up to help for the color impaired.
[00:12:44]Chris mentions a utility that is very useful called, CUID, which generates unique ideas.
[00:16:12]A trick is explained that is very useful if you don’t want attributes to be passed and a Chrome extension called Vimium is mentioned.
[00:23:00]Maria saw a really great talk at an Accessibility Conference by CB Averitt that you should check out.
[00:28:21]Chrome has an extension called, Focus Indicator, that Maria says, “It’s really cute.” Hear what it does.
[00:29:57]The topic of accessibility “faux pas” of touch devices is discussed.
[00:36:35]If you’re having to retrofit an app with accessibility find out where you can start and where are places you can go to get easy wins.
[00:41:13]Accessible design from the beginning was touched on earlier, but now the discussion is on the bigger picture with layouts.
[00:44:37]Screen readers and compatibility is touched on as well as WCAG resources which have really good coding examples.
[00:47:33]If you want to see a cool YouTube series go check out Rob Dodson’s “A11ycasts!”
Picks of the week:[00:50:05] Ari has two picks: A song called “The Light,” by The Album Leaf. Also, a song called, “Da Funk,” by Daft Punk.[00:50:33] Chris has two picks: A game called, “Disco Elysium,” and to protect against the COVID-19 virus using scarves and bandanas instead of surgical masks.[00:54:40] Elizabeth’s pick is a keyboard shortcut on VS code, Ctrl+G, on Mac and Windows.[00:56:57] Maria’s pick is that she let her dog lead her on a walk recently and he led them to a secret new dog park inside their neighborhood and it has changed her life![00:58:01] Ben has two picks: Check out Maria’s talk at VueConf on Vue Mastery and the tv show, “Survivor” Season 33: Millennials Vs. Gen-X.Resources:
Maria Lamardo's Twitter (https://twitter.com/marialamardo?lang=en)Maria Lamardo's Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marialamardo)
Pendo (https://www.pendo.io/)Color Oracle (https://colororacle.org/)
Vimium (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbaibhgnhhndojpepiihcmeb?hl=en)Cuid (https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid)
Focus Indicator (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focus-indicator/heeoeadndnhebmfebjccbhmccmaoedlf?hl=en-US)CB Averitt (https://www.deque.com/blog/author/cb/)
Vue Enterprise Boilerplate base-link component (https://github.com/chrisvfritz/vue-enterprise-boilerplate/blob/master/src/components/_base-link.vue)GitHub Ally Organization ()
Rob Dodson-A11ycasts on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYkxOF6rcICWx0C9LVWWVqvHlYJyqw7g)Vue School-Web Accessibility with Maria (https://vueschool.io/courses/web-accessibility-fundamentals)
“The Light” by The Album Leaf (https://open.spotify.com/album/1nNiEgpGPe2Sxy9fCxlIYW?highlight=spotify:track:3YlJKAnvDjHNFjFVy2MXMG)“Da Funk” by Daft Punk (https://open.spotify.com/album/5uRdvUR7xCnHmUW8n64n9y?highlight=spotify:track:0MyY4WcN7DIfbSmp5yej5z)
Disco Elysium (https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium/)VS Code shortcut (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/tips-and-tricks)
Web Accessibility Talk at VueConf with Maria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHubDB6DIfE)“Survivor”-Season 33 (https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/episodes/33/)
Sponsor:Linode (https://promo.linode.com/vue/)
Special Guest: Maria Lamardo.

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