Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software

Elm Town

Tessa Kelly shares her experience unblocking users while building quality software, explains how to avoid the "accessibility dongle" using the Elm philosophy, and considers some tesk9/accessible-html design changes.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.04.04

Guest

• Tessa Kelly (https://github.com/tesk9)

Show notes

[00:00:13] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:00:47] Introducing Tessa Kelly (she needs no introduction)

• Elm Town 9 - Getting Started
• Elm Town 30 - Accessibility with Tessa Kelly
• Elm Radio - (2020) Holiday Special!
• Elm Radio - Accessibility in Elm
• tesk9/accessible-html
• tesk9/palette
• "Functional Data Structures" at elm-conf 2016
• "Accessibility with Elm" at elm-conf 2017
• "Writing Testable Elm" at elm-conf 2019
• Software Unscripted - Accessibility in Practice with the Accessibilibats! 🦇

[00:01:25] Tessa is stealing her brother's life

[00:03:48] The early days of Elm at NoRedInk

• NoRedInk/noredink-ui
• "The life of a file" by Evan Czaplicki at Elm Europe 2017

[00:08:17] Motivation for building tesk9/accessible-html

• The Four Principles of Accessibility - POUR

[00:12:40] Not disempowering people

"Don’t assume that you’re the default. Make space for there to be other ways of being.” - runner Lauren Fleshman on the Daily Stoic podcast

[00:18:32] The business motivation for accessibility

• Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)

[00:25:51] The tests are there for you

[00:28:07] Using Elm philosophy to avoid the "accessibility dongle"

• Elm philosophy tweet

[00:34:31] accessible-html design ideas

[00:44:53] How do you feel about CSS?

[00:49:00] What's going on at NoRedInk?

• "Word Labels" by Tessa Kelly on the NoRedInk blog.

[00:52:35] Picks

Tessa's picks

• "Research Through Broken Lenses: The Need to ‘Shift Left’ in UX Research" by Michele Williams at axe-con 2023
• All of the axe-con 2023 talks
• Jeroen Engel's elm-review

Jared's picks

• Aaron VonderHaar's elm-program-test
• Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox
• The End of This Day's Business by Katharine Burdekin