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date: 2025-07-11
topic: Web Accessibility
guests:
  - Mike Gifford
links:
- - Mike's website
  - https://ox.ca
- - Mike on Drupal.org
  - https://www.drupal.org/u/mgifford
- - My Web, My Way
  - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005khmk
- - simplA11yPDFCrawler
  - https://github.com/accessibility-luxembourg/simplA11yPDFCrawler
- - Drupal.org's Accessibility page
  - https://www.drupal.org/about/features/accessibility
- - WCAG 2 Overview
  - https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag
- - Drupal's core gates
  - https://www.drupal.org/about/core/policies/core-change-policies/core-gates
- - Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping (ARRM) Community Group
  - https://www.w3.org/community/arrm
- - Sustainable Web Interest Group
  - https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/sustainableweb
- - Writing Accessibility tests in Nightwatch
  - https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/automated-testing/javascript-testing-using-nightwatch
- - The Sa11y module
  - https://www.drupal.org/project/sa11y
- - Drupal's Accessibility Coding Standards
  - https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/standards/accessibility-coding-standards
- - Shift-left testing
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift-left_testing
episode_filename: 32-web-accessibility.mp3
file_size: 38235236
duration: 01:23:01
use: [podcast_episodes]
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In this episode, Oliver is joined by Mike Gifford - Senior Strategist at CivicActions, W3C Invited Expert and Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer - to discuss web accessibility.