A presentation at Vue.js Berlin in June 2019 in Berlin, Germany by Oscar

At the end of February, WebAIM published The WebAIM Million, an accessibility analysis of the homepages of the one million most visited websites.

The findings are depressing. The average site contained about 60 errors. Things went even more downhill when putting JS frameworks in the equation. As a reaction to those findings, this talk tries to shed light on some accessibility best practices regarding accessible inputs, as well as do soulsearching why we, as developers, have failed so badly.

• Tournant UI

  Inclusive Vue component library in the making.

• The WebAIM Million

  An accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages.

• World Wide Web Consortium Launches International Program Office for Web Accessibility Initiative

  W3C press release on the launch of the Web Accessibility Initiative in 1997.

• How Privilege Defines Performance

  Talk by Tatiana Mac on understanding and questioning privilege as well as an important call for inclusion and equality. Must watch. Seriously.

• Web Accessibility In Context

  How do browsers and HTML support screen readers today? In this article, Be Birchall explains why it’s so important to prioritize accessibility among teams and why there needs to be more awareness raised among developers. Lack of awareness and prioritization, rather than any technical limitation, is currently the main barrier to an accessible web.

• Getting Started with Website Accessibility

  Website accessibility is a buzzword these days, but not everyone has a firm grasp on what that term means. So what is website accessibility? Who is in need of accessible websites? And why should you as a website designer/developer/content creator even care?

• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

  Homepage of the WAI

• Accessible Rich Internet Applications

  Index of the ARIA specification

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

  Success Criteria and Techniques for accessible websites

• The web we broke

  Ethan Marcotte’s well-written and important response to the WebAIM finding. Including the conclusion that «[t]he only way this work gets done is if we start small, and if we work together.»

• Fighting uphill

  Another example published in response to WebAIM’s findings, calling for developers to keep advocating accessibility.

• The A11y Project

  A collection of tips, tests and patterns to build accessible interfaces.

• Some Accessibility Resources

  Scott O’Hara compiled a list of resources, which is well worth digging into. Loads of valuable stuff in there.

• A11Y Style Guide

  A base styleguide/pattern library/baseline.

• Inclusive Components

  A blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive web interfaces, piece by piece.

• Inclusive Design Patterns

  Written by Heydon Pickering, this book contains some valuable examples, especially if you are starting to build inclusive interfaces.

• Reach UI

  Ryan Florence’s project, trying to build an accessible library to build React applications upon.

• Accessible App

  Patterns & strategies for accessible web-apps. Maintained by Marcus Herrmann.

• Accessible routing with vue.js

  Routing using Vue router isn’t accessible out-of-the-box. Marcus Herrmann shows how to improve on this.

• Deque University

  Deque University offers training for every level of expertise and every area expertise in digital accessibility.

• axe for Web

  An open source accessibility rules library for automated testing. Integrate accessibility into your existing testing environment.

• Axess Lab

  Digital accessibility consultants and products

• A11y Weekly

  A weekly newsletter on all things accessibility.

• a11y Slack

  An amazingly helpful community about all things web accessibility.

• Getting Started with Web Accessibility in Vue

  Good introduction on some basics for accessibility in Vue apps.

• Getting started with OS X VoiceOver

• Creating accessible input errors and help text

  The article on which I based my implementation, written by James Jacobs on the Pulsar blog.

• Accessible Icon Buttons

  The definitive guide on making icon buttons accessible, written by Sara Soueidan.

• Hiding elements from screen readers using aria-hidden

  Intro to using aria-hidden.

• Inclusively Hidden

  Extensive guide on different techniques to hide content.

• Required Attribute Requirements

  If you want to use required with your input elements, make sure to take the findings of this article into consideration.

• Describing aria-describedby

  Usage guide for aria-describedby.

• Using the aria-describedby property to provide a descriptive label for user interface controls

  The purpose of this technique is to demonstrate how to use the WAI-ARIA aria-describedby property to provide programmatically determined, descriptive information about a user interface element.

• Vuelidate

  Simple, lightweight, model-based validation for Vue.js.

• @tournant/input

  NPM package of the discussed input implementation.