Digital Accessibility Sensei Allison Ravenhall presented at The Web Meetup (Melbourne) on 9 May 2017 on Digital accessibility 101.

1. Digital accessibility 101
The Web Meetup, 9 May 2017
Allison Ravenhall
@RavenAlly
Digital Accessibility Sensei
Intopia
@Intopiadigital

2. Accessibility
The qualities that
make an experience
open to all

3. Vision Hearing
CognitionMobility

4. Whose website
must be
accessible?
Yours.

5. Disability Discrimination Act 1992

6. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
(a.k.a. ISO/IEC 40500:2012)

7. 2.1.1 Keyboard
All functionality of the content is operable through a keyboard
interface without requiring specific timings for individual
keystrokes, except where the underlying function requires
input that depends on the path of the user's movement and
not just the endpoints. (Level A)

8. Perceivable
Operable
Understandable
Robust
I can consume the content
I can use the site
I can understand the content
My assistive tech works

9. Be accessible - UX
• Check colour contrast
• Define visible focus states
• Do any of your personas have different needs?

10. Be accessible - Build
• Use native HTML
• Manage focus
• Check accessibility of framework code

11. Be accessible - Content
• Define short, descriptive image phrases
• Use plain language
• Define unique link text

12. Be accessible – More ideas
• Try out assistive technology
• Test your code
• Tenon.io
• aXe Firefox/Chrome extension
• IE Web Accessibility Toolbar
• WAVE Firefox extension

13. Start the accessibility
conversation
at your workplace

14. YOU WANT MORE?

15. An evening of lightning talks
Thursday 18 May
a11ybytes.org/melbourne/

16. Workshop – 12 Sept
Conference – 13 Sept
a11ybytes.org/a11y-camp-sydney/

17. And I’m done.
@RavenAlly @Intopiadigital