Oct 18-19, 2019  ·  San Antonio, TX
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Texas Camp 2019

Practical Steps Toward an Accessibility Mindset

Track
Accessibility
Skill Level
Beginner
Timeslot
Saturday 10/19/2019
1:00-2:00

Tips for crafting your sites with accessibility web standards and best practices in mind. Including accessibility gotchas you may not be aware of when building and testing your sites to be WCAG 2.1 AA compliant. In this session, we will cover web accessibility evaluation tools such as WAVE and how website accessibility is more of a mindset of how to approach the design/build/maintenance of website than an achievable goal that you can check off your requirements checklist. // Outline Intro Web Accessibility Tools Gotchas/Tips Example Site Keyboard Access/tab through path How accessibility impacts design

Marcus Harrison

Marcus Harrison is the Senior Front End Developer at Texas Creative, a full-service marketing agency in San Antonio. He has been active in the Drupal community for more than 6 years. Marcus’ background in design led to his focus on user experience and UI design/build and eventually to a commitment to making accessible sites.

Art Williams

Art Williams is the VP of Technology & Drupal Team Lead at Texas Creative, a full-service marketing agency based in San Antonio. He has been active in Drupal development for more than 13 years, is a co-organizer of the San Antonio Drupal User Group, and has attended many user groups, Texas Camps, and DrupalCons. Art and the Texas Creative team maintain many contrib modules and are active in the issues queues of core and other contrib modules.