brief intro to what is web accessibility and why we should care. delivered as a lightning talk at Women Who Code Tokyo - 2024/01. talk content added in notes. feel free to share!

1. Web Accessibility:
Why should I care?
Maddy, UI/UX Engineer

2. Who am I?

3. What is web accessibility?

4. What is web accessibility?
● Perceive
● Understand
● Navigate
● Interact
● Contribute

5. Disabilities that affect access to the web
auditory cognitive neurological
physical speech visual

6. “But I don’t
have any
users with
disabilities!”

7. 7.6%
~9.6M
(MHLW, 2018)

8. Benefits users without disabilities

9. Temporary disabilities & situational limitations

10. Good for UX and SEO too
UX SEO
a11y

11. “It’s the
designer’s
job!”

13. It’s the law in Japan too
● Act for Eliminating Discrimination against Persons
with Disabilities（障害者差別解消法）
● "Reasonable Accommodation" will be
mandatory for private companies from April 2024

16. Resources
●W3C's Introduction to Web Accessibility
●W3C’s Web Accessibility course for free on EdX
●WAS certification
●Deque’s WAS certification prep course

17. Web Accessibility:
You should care!
Thank you.