Laura Kalbag — Accessibility for Everyone
Podcast |
Non Breaking Space Show
Publisher |
Goodstuff.network
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Careers, 
Interview, 
Technology
Categories Via RSS |
Arts, 
Tech News, 
Technology
Publication Date |
Aug 22, 2017
Episode Duration |
Unknown
Laura Kalbag is a designer from the UK. She’s one-third of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, Laura works on a web privacy tool called Better. Her first book, Accessibility for Everyone, is published by A Book Apart.
Laura Kalbag is a designer from the UK. She’s one-third of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, Laura works on a web privacy tool called Better. Her first book, Accessibility for Everyone, is published by A Book Apart.

Laura Kalbag is a designer from the UK. She’s one-third of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, Laura works on a web privacy tool called Better. Her first book, Accessibility for Everyone, is published by A Book Apart.

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Time Jumps

  • 2:30 How’d the idea for your book come about?
  • 4:25 Is it an introduction to accessibility?
  • 6:50 It’s more than just good HTML and CSS on websites.
  • 11:00 Any techniques for convincing a team or manager to push for accessibility?
  • 12:30 Diversity helps us understand that people use the web differently than us.
  • 15:34 What other ways do people use the web?
  • 18:40 Accessibility can be expensive but there are so many things you can do that are free.
  • 20:38 Learning HTML better is a basic way to help accessibility.
  • 21:48 A number of sites that rely on Javascript to click a link.
  • 24:10 Websites taking over the browser scroll bar.
  • 25:10 CSS is so easy to style elements like website buttons.
  • 27:20 What services and tools are out there to help people with accessibility testing?
  • 29:25 In order to have good UX, you need to have good accessibility.

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