1. React
  2. React Day Berlin
  3. 2019
  4. Building Webapps for everyone - a11y with React

Building Webapps for everyone - a11y with React

An often-missing ingredient in many React Applications is a focus on accessibility best practices—especially when component libraries are part of the application.

Manjula Dube at React Day Berlin 2019

Building React applications has been fairly easy now, However, an often-missing ingredient in many React Applications is a focus on accessibility best practices — especially when component libraries are part of their application. Nothing in React prevents us from building accessible web apps, but we need to learn to harness its power in the right way while dealing with some unique challenges caused by creating web pages with JavaScript. This talk will focus on these issues and how to solve them in the real world, while also adding some a11y power to your development process. This talk will also focus on why it is important to build accessible web apps.