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Building a culture of accessibility from step zero with Ayesha Mazumdar

Episode Summary

Ayesha Mazumdar is a Senior UX Engineer at Optimizely and works to enable everyone to access the web no matter their ability. How does one build a culture at their company that values accessibility from the beginning? Where does a11y factor in when creating design systems, and later component libraries. How much ARIA is enough...or too much?

Episode Notes

Ayesha Mazumdar is a Senior UX Engineer at Optimizely and works to enable everyone to access the web no matter their ability. How does one build a culture at their company that values accessibility from the beginning? Where does a11y factor in when creating design systems, and later component libraries. How much ARIA is enough...or too much?

• Fable and Access Works both let you test your applications with people with disabilities
• Cordelia Dillon's Accessibility Bake Off talk
• An example of W3's Keyboard Interaction guidelines (link is specifically for Listbox)
• Ayesha's ReactBoston Scaling Accessibility video and slides