Accessibility is More Than Ramps

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. While the day focuses on digital accessibility, I’d like to take the opportunity to talk about an important aspect of prioritizing accessibility in the technology that we build: creating environments that include disabled employees.

Using image descriptions in Instagram posts

It’s pretty common knowledge now that you can set image descriptions on Twitter, but did you know that you can set them on your Instagram posts too? Here’s a quick tutorial on how to do it. Let’s say I want to share a photo of my dog, Luna. The first steps are the same as the usual Instagram process: I select a photo, apply a filter, and write a description. That takes me here:...

Using buffer to set image descriptions

Descriptions on images, also known as alt-text, are important for people reading your content using a screen reader or other assistive technology. Screen readers synthesize on-screen text, which allows people who are blind or have low vision to interact with technology. However, images cannot be “read out loud” the same way that text can, so screen readers rely on the person posting the image to set the description via alt-text, and synthesize that property instead....

Writing Accessible Go

A talk presented at GopherCon 2018. Full slides: PDF Transcript Hi, my name is Julia Ferraioli and this is Writing Accessible Go. First off, for those who would prefer to read a transcript alongside this talk, you can find a preliminary one here. Once the video is posted, I’ll go update that transcript to match what I’ve said here – hopefully there won’t be too many differences! I work at Google’s Open Source Office, developing tools to help people and teams with their open source projects and contributions....