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Power Apps, Accessibility, and WCAG

Introduction – What lies ahead I have been talking about Accessibility for a while now, and often link this to DELIVERY rather than BUILD. In this post, “Power Apps, Accessibility, and WCAG”, I’m going to bring all this together. I’m also going to tie it in to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) around colour contrast. This post itself is going to be a fairly high-level overview of a Power Platform Solution I’ve written. The

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Blog Header. Scottish Summit 2021. Rory Preddy: Programming for Accessibility
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Programming for Accessibility

The Accessibility track at Scottish Summit 2021 covered so many topics throughout the day. The session “Programming for Accessibility” by Rory Preddy was an amazing look at both living with accessibility requirements, and how to include accessibility in our thinking when programming applications. Rory was introduced to me via Hector Minto when we were having a catchup call about the summit. As a spur-of-the-moment inspiration Hector asked Rory to join our call. Immediately his humour

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Blog Header. Scottish Summit 2021. Sancho Harker: Instant Accessibility using a Theming Template
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Power Apps – Instant Accessibility using a Theming Template

Continuing my look at the Scottish Summit 2021 Accessibility track. One of the standout sessions was the “Instant Accessibility using a Theming Template” in Power Apps talk by Sancho Harker. I first came across Sancho when he delivered a talk at Microsoft Ignite The Tour London in 2020 (just before lockdown). Like this one from Scottish Summit, his talk was primarily demo-led. During it he showed us this seriously cool template app he’d built for

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