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Front-end accessibility (a11y) #19

Closed dpersing closed 10 years ago

dpersing commented 10 years ago

For week 6 (HTML/CSS) and maybe the javascript intro week, whenever that ends up, I'd love to introduce some basic accessibility principles like major use cases, basic ways to test and implement accessible styles (color contrast, font sizes and weights, that sort of thing), and accessible HTML (using semantic elements correctly, adding ARIA attributes).

I'm happy to lead the charge on this!

nickirios commented 10 years ago

I agree. Write up some curriculum for that. :)

dpersing commented 10 years ago

Already working on it! :D

Edit: [https://github.com/dpersing/curriculum/blob/master/lessons/06_html.md](started here).

kerrizor commented 10 years ago

This is great, YES YES YES! Accessibility (like I18N!) is "easy" if you start doing it from scratch.

I'd love to see some project and assignment proposals around this, too.

dpersing commented 10 years ago

I'll try to work in some stuff this week!

dpersing commented 10 years ago

@kerrizor, on the topic of assignments, would it make sense at all to piggy back on whatever HTML/CSS assignments are currently in play? I'd love to have the students integrate a11y principles into something they've already been working on to make the process seem relevant. I'm also totally open to creating a separate set of HTML/CSS samples/exercises, whichever fits in best with the way the course is moving.

kerrizor commented 10 years ago

Would you be available to do a day of guest lecturing on the topic of a11y when we get to it? We're going to be reorganizing the week schedule based on feedback from the volunteer's meeting as well as our own planning, and will be constructing a guest/TA/volunteer calendar in the next few days.

dpersing commented 10 years ago

@kerrizor Absolutely! I would love to.

dpersing commented 10 years ago

Verrrrrrry rough outline of a possible a11y lesson for the HTML/CSS unit: https://github.com/dpersing/curriculum/blob/master/lessons/06_html_a11y.md

RobinClowers commented 10 years ago

@dpersing Looks like a great start! In the future I think it would be helpful to submit changes as a pull request so that people can easily make suggestions / corrections. Does that make sense?

RobinClowers commented 10 years ago

For some reason I thought you had pushed to ada/master, but I see it's your fork. Can you open a pull request for it?

dpersing commented 10 years ago

@RobinClowers Done! https://github.com/Ada-Developers-Academy/curriculum/pull/27

Sorry, I've been off the grid, as they say.