Have you ever looked at the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)? Like most standards documents, they’re dry and not very clear, so let’s make them more accessible! I’ll strip the WCAG docs down to their basics and introduce various tools you can use to check the accessibility of your website or app. Whether it’s an audit tool such as aXe or WAVE, a colour contrast tool built into your browser, or a colour-blindness simulator, you’ll learn how to use these tools, interpret the results, and create an accessibility checklist and a plan for fixing common issues.

Once people have been introduced to accessibility concepts, they’re going to need to know how to implement those in the real world. This talk will boil the WCAG guidelines down to their fundamentals and introduce various tools to check and verify accessibility. I will be discussing things like browser dev tools, linters and CI/CD environments, but at a very high level.