Making Your Application Accessible and Maintaining Accessibility Standards

Learn essential strategies for implementing and maintaining web accessibility in this 33-minute conference talk from Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024. Discover why accessibility is not just a moral imperative but a legal requirement, as the speaker addresses the concerning statistic that over 70% of websites are inaccessible to blind users. Gain valuable insights from GitHub's accessibility program implementation and learn practical approaches to scale accessibility initiatives within your own organization. Walk away with actionable knowledge to make your applications more inclusive and compliant with accessibility standards.