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Web Accessibility: Changing the perspective
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- 2. Hi, I amVal (she/Her) Product Designer @Greenlight Gur Firend of Figma Aalborg BIO.DMG BIO.DMG BIO.DMG Valerija Trane She/Her UX Specialist @ Greenlight Guru Visual designer trying to make word a better place trough better design and user experience. Plant mom and art book hoarder. @valerijatrane ↗ @valerijatrane ↗ @valerijatrane ↗
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- 4. 1. Who needsweb accesibility? 2. Why everybody is talking accesibility? 3. What can we do? Agenda
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- 7. Person in a wheelchair= Disabled person
- 8. Let’s imagine aDisabled User Sex: Age: Region: Presbyopia (hard to see up close Red-green color blindnes Surface dyslexic Limited hand dexterit Reduced fingertip sensitivity
- 9. Sex: Male Age: 41 Region:Central Europe *This is a stock photo by Peter van Eijk on Unsplash *
- 10. Presbyopia 120% zoom, biggerfonts enabled on smart devices Red-green color blindness Difficulty “scanning” color coded notifications like a dot type badge Surface dyslexic Have difficulties with some fonts, more problems with “walls of text” Limited hand dexterity & reduced fingertip sensitivity Sliders, checkmarks, fingertip scanners can be frustrating
- 11. “Some may notconsider themselves to have disabilities even if they do experience such functional limitations.” The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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- 13. Opens bigger Market Datasource: Federal Reserve (2020).
- 14. Accessible design makes aGood User Experience for everyone Focus mode on iOS
- 15. It is getting expensive In 2018,the number of federal website accessibility lawsuits nearly tripled to more than 2,250. In 2019 number went up 11,053 and in 2021 the number was 10,982. In 2020 the total number of ADA Title III lawsuits nearly match 2019 record numbers despite COVID-19, with 10,982 suits filed in federal court, down only 1% from 2019’s 11,053 lawsuits filed.
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- 17. The Americans withDisabilities Act (ADA) Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act States that if a business is a “public place of accommodation,” then overall accessibility — digital or otherwise — is expected. As the web and smart devices become integrated as crucial parts of our society, it is essential to make them accessible. ADA was established back in 1990. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires the federal government to take accessibility into account when procuring websites, telephones, copiers, computers, hardware, and software.
- 18. Mandotory policy inDenmark Scope: Public sector Web only: yes Agreement on the use of open standards for software in the public sector
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- 20. Don’t rely on Overlays Component-baseduser interfaces using ReactJS, Angular, or Vue may change the state of all or some of the underlying pages independently of the overlay, rendering it unable to fix those JavaScript-driven changes to content. Overlays do not repair content in Flash, Java, Silverlight, PDF, HTML5 Canvas, SVG, or media files. https://overlayfactsheet.com/
- 21. Be mindful of Altattributes
- 22. The World WideWeb Consortium (W3C) develops international standards for the Web WAI (The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative) develops standards and support materials to help you understand and implement accessibility. a11y a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier
- 23. WCAG AAA is great, butAA is realisitc A (lowest) — sets a minimum level of accessibility and does not achieve broad accessibility for many situations. AA (mid range) — suggested conformance level for a Web-based information. AAA (highest) — even though the highest in the ranking system, WCAG does not recommend that Level AAA conformance be required as a general policy for entire sites because it is not possible to satisfy all Level AAA success criteria for some content.
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- 25. Thankyou! Linked In: ValerijaTrane Twitter: @valerijatrane