01. No Website Should Be Without Accessibility w/ Sailesh Raghavan X_Change

This episode is hosted by AnuRock. Today we are joined by none other than Sailesh Raghavan. Sailesh is a Senior Director Technology who currently leads the Experience Technology domain comprising of React, Angular, Node, and Full Cycle developers for Publicis Sapient in India. He has also been involved in setting up the India XT domain and community and seen growth from a team of just 60-odd in 2009 to more than 1000 XTs today.



Sailesh joins us today to discuss web accessibility, a topic very close to his heart. He has personally overseen the development of several fully accessible enterprise web solutions. We are glad to have him share his thoughts and viewpoints about the much ignored yet critical topic.



Topics:


Guidelines: WCAG, ATAG, UAAG
A, AA, AAA conformance
The three a11y buckets – Design, Code, Content
Testing tools: WAVE Toolbar, AChecker, Pa11y, React aXe
Screen Readers: JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver
A11y Auditing Organizations: Level Access, EqualWeb
No Mouse Thursdays
A11y Experts @ PS: Dinesh Kaushal, Alison Walden
Sailesh's Accessibility blog: https://medium.com/engineered-publicis-sapient/accessibility-the-mandatory-nice-to-have-620f35346dcf



Side Bytes:


Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth (John Doerr)
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals (Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, and Sean Covey)
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Patrick Lencioni)
The Innovators by Walter Issacson
Syntax Podcast



Transition music courtesy https://mixkit.co