State of the art of developer support

[Michelle D'Souza]

Hi Steve,

One of the things we do as the Fluid community is create resources to assist people with learning about a11y and thinking about it from the beginning. We’ve been collecting our resources here: https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Inclusive+Design+Toolkit <https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Inclusive+Design+Toolkit>

We also contribute to other open efforts that work on teaching about a11y such as the MDN accessibility docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility>

We try to put as much as we can into the tech community at large since that will have the greatest effect. One of the reasons we use the particular open licenses that we do is so that people can take what’s useful to them and contribute back to the resources and components that we’ve worked on. 

Michelle


> On Mar 29, 2017, at 4:59 AM, Steve Lee <steve at opendirective.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to ask the collective brains here about the current state of
> the art in support for developers in making accessible web apps and
> sites.
> 
> I'm thinking of everyday developers who know nothing of accessibility
> and whom might be using any framework or toolchain.
> 
> Looking around at various frameworks (both frontend and n-tier) I find
> very little support at all in general. Either in the core frameworks
> or their wider communities. A few do better especially Infusion with a
> focus on a11y, but of course only a few devs are using it.
> 
> What do people think? What support is there and what could we do more
> to guide devs above components with a11y baked in or page checkers?
> 
> Steve Lee
> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
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