Why can we not recognise screen readers and other assistive technologies in web analytics? Why do we want to do that? Are there other ways we can use web analytics to check if our websites work just as well for user with disabilities as for other users?
Read the manuscript for the talk: https://medium.com/@twidero/can-we-use-web-analytics-to-improve-accessibility-54378a22e892
2. Who am I?
Tom Widerøe
Front end developer,
accessibility advocate,
web analytics wannabe
FINN.no, Schibsted Media Group
Father of three, husband of one,
owner of cat
@twidero
4. What to talk about?
Analyzing accessibility
with web analytics
• Why so difficult?
• What are we missing?
• Can we do it anyway?
• Findings
5. Why so difficult?
What does a website know
about us?
Screen size
Web browser
Operating system
Javascript version
Connection
Language
Time
+++
Device type
...but nothing about
assistive technologies