48: Web Accessibility in Polymer

In episode 48 we chat with Chrome team member & Accessibility champion Alice Boxhall (@sundress) and Polymer team #a11y heroes, Chris Joel (@RoboDynamo) & Daniel Freedman (@danfreedman) about the Polymer 1.0 and what is new in web accessibility of the library as well as what we should expect looking forward. Chris & Joel work a lot on the testing and managing of elements and their compliance with web accessibility features.

Resources

• Polymer - https://www.polymer-project.org/

• Gold Repository - https://github.com/webcomponents/gold-standard/wiki

• Screenreader Marketshare - http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey5/

• Axe Core - https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core

• Total.ly - http://khan.github.io/tota11y/

• Chrome tooling - https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tools

• Webcomponent-tester - https://github.com/Polymer/web-component-tester

• voiceover - http://www.apple.com/accessibility/ios/voiceover/

• talkback - http://www.androidcentral.com/what-google-talk-back

• saucelabs - https://saucelabs.com/

• atomic design -  http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/

Panelists

• Erik Isaksen - HTML5 Google Developer Expert & Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital

• Justin Ribeiro - Wearables & HTML5 Google Developer Expert & Partner at Stickman Ventures