Personal site to archive digital accessibility-related learnings,
mostly focused on technical implementations.
Gerard K. Cohen
Over the past decade, Gerard has built and advised top-notch
digital accessibility teams that have impacted millions of
individuals worldwide. His experience ranges from supporting
commercial financial applications responsible for transferring
trillions of dollars globally, to enhancing accessibility on
pre-Elon Twitter.
You don't have to be an accessibility expert to make your sites
accessible. This course will help you attain the knowledge and
skills to meet web accessibility guidelines and make your sites
accessible to all users.
Set yourself above other front end engineers by learning the
core concepts and rules needed to architect and build any
accessible custom component with ARIA, in order to provide
inclusive experiences for all users.
This course will teach you different techniques to efficiently
and thoroughly test your websites for accessibility, using a
combination of testing tools and various assistive technologies
like screen readers.
It's time to shift accessibility past the designer-to-engineer
handoff & expand further left, up, down, & right into other
areas. This discussion is for Accessibility/DEI leaders, or
anyone looking to move digital accessibility to higher levels.
Semantics are the backbone of digital accessibility. Not just
for developers, this is also crucial for designers, especially
when expected to provide accessibility annotations.
A massive amount of work has been done over the years to shift
digital accessibility from an engineering afterthought to better
planning in the design stages. However, there are lots of gaps
remaining in other directions and areas to truly achieve full
digital accessibility. It's time to move past the focus and
responsibility being strictly on engineers.
A few months ago, I wrote about solving an issue with VoiceOver
and list–style–type: none;. The response that I got
was surprising, for a few different reasons.