State of the art of developer support

[Steve Lee]

Thanks Michelle

I agree education is a very important part of the puzzle. They are
great resources and I've personally used MDN many times :)
Steve Lee
OpenDirective http://opendirective.com


On 29 March 2017 at 13:36, Michelle D'Souza <michelled33 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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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