Designer at #Chromatic | formerly at Automatic | #wordpress contributor | open sourcerer
In the meantime, here's a blog post introducing some of our tools. These particular projects are a passion of mine and it's been a privilege to design and help build them. Let me know what you think! Thanks!
https://www.chromatic.com/blog/accessibility-testing-is-here/
The combination of Accessibility Regression #testing and the Accessibility Dashboard in #Chromatic are a SOLID combo, especially when paired with #Storybook, and I can tell you with confidence that they are continuing to improve. I can't wait to share a few updates we've been cooking up.
Not only have we been making a concerted effort across our products to improve accessibility, but we also built out some pretty cool tools to aid in that quest...
You would be surprised at how many issues are caused by something so small. For example, one of our engineers discovered that changing one line of code led to the fixing of 7,000 violations.
Capturing all of these states results in a fair amount of duplication (which I'm sure your apps and websites have as well in their reports). If a Button component has four accessibility violations, you will see those propagate to every view or component using that Button (as will your users).
Over the years, we have used our #Storybook as a tool to get excellent coverage of our various components in all their states. Everything from atomic components to full-on pages is captured. We even capture our email templates and #test those!
My team has fixed over 18 THOUSAND #accessibility violations over the last few months in #Chromatic and we're continuing to make forward progress. SO stoked to see these kinds of results. How did we get so many?
maximize every window
also i have michael.blog and michaelarestad.com. is having a cool blog url still cool or should I just do the one thing?
so i rewrote my entire blog in #11ty and migrated all the stuff locally. it's got a design i quite like. then, right before publish, i realized i don't actually want to republish any of that. halp.
@zachleat plus what tho
we made a thing! go test some #accessibility and make your stuff even better!
(would appreciate a boost on this one if you're into that sort of thing <3 )
https://www.chromatic.com/blog/accessibility-testing-is-here/
okay this site and posts are absolute gold https://www.nicchan.me/
@jensimmons it took me some time to learn as flexbox does the trick for almost all of my use cases. That meant I had to relearn it every time I had a use case for grid (few and far).
@eleventy the most perfect timing my friend
@IanVS if you fill out the form there is an option to sign up for stickers. we can also just send you a few if you remind me on Monday
@estelle do we even need those things on websites?
