The webinar started with a list of pet peeves: classifying accessibility as “nice to have” instead of as a prerequisite, forgetting alt text on images, omitting labels on buttons, and seeing an IT professional who isn’t committed to accessibility. Participants attending the Integrating Accessibility Into a Computing Career webinar quickly learned how those four items irk the following four panelists, respectively:
- Erin Buehler, UX research manager at Google;
- Kirk Crawford, product manager at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS);
- JooYoung Seo, assistant professor of information sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and
- Emily Young, support specialist at UC Irvine.