Blog series for Global Accessibility Awareness Day

[rajasegar]

This came out of a discussion in #st-a11y channel about doing an A11y blog post series for GAAD ( Global Accessibility Awareness Day) https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/

The idea is to publish a blog post each day from May 1 - 21 with the following topics, one topic/day. This will open up a lot of ways for Ember developers to know more about A11y and inturn to create awareness about the subject. Willing to collaborate on any topic with other people. @MelSumner wanted to check with the blog team so that the folks can respond with the topic they'd like to write about, hence creating an issue for the same here.

• [ ] What & Why of Accessibility
• [ ] The POUR model
• [ ] Color contrast
• [ ] Keyboard accessibility
• [ ] Screenreaders
• [ ] Ember & A11y
• [ ] Ember Addons for A11y
• [ ] WCAG
• [ ] Laws, standards, and guidelines with respect to A11y
• [ ] WAI-ARIA recommendations
• [ ] Browser extensions for A11y
• [ ] Testing A11y - how & why (:lock: @praskovia-root)
• [ ] Images & Alt
• [ ] Forms & Labels
• [ ] ARIA
• [ ] Headings
• [ ] Regions & Landmarks
• [ ] Links, skip links
• [ ] Language & A11y, lang attribute, etc.,
• [ ] Resources - websites, blogs, newsletters, etc.
• [ ] People - We can talk about some of the most prominent people working on Web Accessibility and what kind of impact they 
are creating for the community.

[amyrlam]

@rajasegar Awesome! Do you want us to plug this initiative in Friday's Ember Times issue e.g. a call for writers, if you are looking for them? lmk

[rajasegar]

@amyrlam Yes, definitely. That would be great to have more people pitching in for the posts. @MelSumner Your thoughts?

[abhilashlr]

@rajasegar quick suggestion, if we agree upon this list, can we make it a TODO checklist? It is something that is followed in the Ember times PR. If someone opts to write on it, the same item can be assigned to individuals?

[rajasegar]

@abhilashlr done

[praskovia-root]

I'd love to write about the a11y testing topic.

[amyrlam]

👍 I went ahead and added @praskovia-root to testing above, hope that's ok!

[amyrlam]

@MelSumner @rajasegar @abhilashlr and team: I meant to submit a PR but committed to the branch instead by accident. Let me know if you have any feedback! Will go out in tomorrow's issue. https://github.com/ember-learn/ember-blog/pull/624/commits/9cb6cee9bd1140f583569be890d6f0a9080a2f8a

[rajasegar]

This looks fine to me, I think the quicker we sent this out the better. I will wait for the feedback from the rest of the team.

[abhilashlr]

Hi @amyrlam, the content reads great 🏆 but a minor spelling mistake for Accessbility which should readAccessibility: https://github.com/ember-learn/ember-blog/commit/9cb6cee9bd1140f583569be890d6f0a9080a2f8a#diff-f65b76e052450eb1f2c8de7d93eb4892R43

[amyrlam]

I'll close this as the post is up! https://blog.emberjs.com/2020/05/21/global-accessibility-awareness-day.html