Brendan O'Leary # DO BETTER
There are many challenging problems to solve in computer science, programming, and shipping code to production. Accessibility and inclusive design are NOT one of them - they are solved problems.
We need to be conscious of building inclusive from the beginning, work against our unconscious biases, and build with (not just 'for') everyone. That will create a world where everyone can contribute.
This page is a non-exhaustive list of resources that I've found valuable on this subject, both as I thought about how my own name can show the importance of validating everyone's experiences and as I wrote my talk The imperative to stop being lazy and do better. If you know of other great resources I should add here, please either send me a DM on Twitter or fork this site and make a merge request.
Come from the talk? You can find the slides here and links from the talk here
# Resources
# Videos
- Designing for a more equitable world, TED talk by Antionette Carroll
- Creating an Accessible Digital Future, TEDxMIT by Judy Brewer
- How I'm fighting bias in algorithms, TED talk by Joy Buolamwini
# Articles
- Accessibility from the Ground Up
- To Build More-Inclusive Technology, Change Your Design Process , Harvard Business Review
- 10 ways to start your inclusive, accessible design journey by Sarvnaz Taherian, Ph.D
- Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy, New York Times
- The Importance of Accessibility in Technology
# Courses
Unless otherwise noted, these courses are free
- Introduction to Web Accessibility from W3C on edX
- Web Fundamentals: Accessibility from Google
- Advanced Web Accessibility by Google on Udacity
- List of a11y courses on GitHub
# Other
- Inclusive Naming Initiative from the Linux Foundation
- Digital a11y
- Inclusive Components project
- Section 508 (US government standards for accessibility)
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
# From the Talk
- My Twitter list of name invalidations
- Twitter thread on Zoom and face decition
- Twitter thread on rejected names
- Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm, New York Times
- 10 ways to start your inclusive, accessible design journey by Sarvnaz Taherian, Ph.D
- GitLab a11y documentation
- Detailed a11y code