CSS Speech + CMS accessibility fire chat
Intro 0:00
CSS Speech 6:34
Chat 21:42
CMS Accessibility 31:50
Chat 48:35
We had a nice virtual fire chat on web #accessibility with Léonie, Hidde and Moritz to talk with our community about various #a11y aspects, including the latest developments (such as in the area of voice recognition). The discussions were kickstarted by a lightning talk from Léonie about CSS Speech, followed by a talk from Hidde about CMS accessibility.
Find all resources which were mentioned below in the first comment!
👉 About Leonie Watson
Léonie is Director of TetraLogical; a member of the W3C Board of Directors; and co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group.
Amongst other things, Léonie is co-organiser of the Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) conference; co-author of the Inclusive Design Principles; and mentor to young people interested in the fields of accessibility and inclusive design. She is also a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP).
Léonie is often found at conferences, talking about web standards, accessibility mechanics, and pushing the boundaries of inclusive design (with existing technologies like SVG, HTML, ARIA, and JavaScript, as well as new technologies like AI and WebVR). She has also written about some of these things for Smashing magazine, SitePoint.com, and Net magazine, as well as on her own site tink.uk.
In her spare time, Léonie likes reading, cooking, drinking tequila, and dancing (although not necessarily in that order)!
Website: https://tink.uk/
👉 About Hidde de Vries
Hidde is a freelance front-end, accessibility and design systems specialist. Previously, he worked for organisations including the Dutch government, W3C (WAI), Sanity.io and Mozilla.
He is a generalist with over a decade of experience building websites. His focus has been mostly on end users: web accessibility, performance and usability.
For the last five years, more of his work has been about teaching and helping teams. From workshops about accessibility, CSS and design systems to accessibility audits and conference talks.
Background: He started out studying Artificial Intelligence, but ended up getting a bachelor and master’s degree in Philosophy. How it relates to front-end work? Abstractions!
Website: https://hidde.blog/
🌍 About Frontend RheinMain:
Frontend RheinMain connects frontend developers and web companies in RheinMain, and beyond. We host free-to-attend meetups to foster knowhow transfer of latest web development technologies.
https://www.frontend-rheinmain.de
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https://www.meetup.com/frontend_rm
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