Ire Aderinokun is a self-taught Frontend Developer and User Interface Designer from Lagos, Nigeria. She is the Cofounder, COO, and VP Engineering of Helicarrier (YC S18), a company building cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa. Helicarrier is behind products such as Buycoins, Sendcash, Sendcash Pay, and more.
Ire is a Google Expert, specialising in the core frontend technologies HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but is passionate about all aspects of technology. She has written over 100 articles on these topics on her blog, bitsofco.de, and regularly shares her knowledge through speaking at conferences around Africa and the world.
HTML is, by default, accessible. By simply using “Plain Old Semantic HTML”, we have the ability to create rich and accessible web pages that can meaningfully stand on their own. More often than not, what makes a web page less accessible is the CSS and JavaScript we add to that HTML. With these additions, we can alter the meaning of elements, change their behaviour, or even block access to content entirely.
In this talk, we’ll explore how CSS and JavaScript can contribute, negatively or positively, to accessibility. We’ll learn when it’s appropriate to use these technologies and how they can be used to make even more accessible websites - from leveraging CSS to adapt experiences to different types of users, to using JavaScript to ensure our dynamic web applications work across all devices.
PWAs in 2021 | All Day Hey! | May 2021 |
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PWAs Five Years On | An Event Apart Spring Summit | April 2021 |
Future-Proof CSS | An Event Apart: Front-End Focus | August 2020 |
FMP, TTI, WTF? Making Sense of Web Performance | #PerfMatters | March 2020 |
Writing CSS in 100 Years | DotCSS | December 2019 |
Headless Chrome & Cloudinary for progressively enhanced dynamic content | JAMstack_conf San Francisco | October 2019 |
Making A11y Easy | Concatenate | August 2018 |
CSS for the Next Billion Users | CSS Day + UX Special | June 2018 |