The Four Basic Principles of Web Accessibility
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"The Four Principles of Accessibility" is an informative presentation meant to shine a light on the benefits of building inclusive products and explain the four basic principles that serve as the foundation for accessibility. These four areas specifically target areas where users have the most trouble when accessing digital products and provide guidelines for understanding how to think and approach accessibility.
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- 1. The Four Basic Principles of Web Accessibility Homer Gaines
- 2. 2 We hear about accessibility but many don’t know why we should worry about it or even where to begin.
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- 4. 4 ADA Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA for short) Requires fair and reasonable access for all individuals with disabilities. In the early 2000’s, this rule was extended to websites and other digital properties even though Titles II and III had been around since 1991. ada.gov
- 5. 5 WORLDMAP World Population ~1 billion people globally have a disability. 15% disabilitystatistics.org
- 6. 6 WORLDMAP Gen X & Y 11% 11% of the population between the age of 21 - 64 have a disability disabilitystatistics.org
- 8. 8 Not all disabilities are permanent.
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- 10. 10 LawsuitsintheUSalone Lawsuits in the US California and Georgia are in the top ten for Title III lawsuits. #1 California #7 Georgia
- 11. 11 LawsuitsintheUSalone Recent high profile lawsuits in the US ● Beyonce ● Domino’s Pizza ● GNC
- 12. 12 USERTESTING
- 13. 13 WCAG2.1 WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria Bare Minimum A https://disabledaccessdenied.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/accessibility-fails-or-when-idiots-design-wheelchair-access/
- 14. 14 WCAG2.1 WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria Wut? AAA @erniesjourney
- 15. 15 WCAG2.1 WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria Sweet Spot AA
- 16. 16 Bare Minimum Sweet Spot Wut? WCAG2.1 WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria A AA AAA
- 17. 17 AXE by Deque For Automated Accessibility Testing AXE
- 19. 19 But How Do We Get There?
- 21. 21 The Four Basic Principles of Accessibility
- 23. 23 Perceivable Users must be able to perceive the content by using their senses. Until the day comes where we can taste and smell digital content, we must focus on the user’s ability to see, hear, and or feel the available content. ● Focusable ● Error handling ● Closed Captions Perceivable
- 24. 24 Operable Because we all don’t use computers the same way, users have a variety of methods for accessing and interacting with digital content. Keeping this in mind, developers need to ensure the content is accessible to the various input devices. ● Type aid ● Switches ● Sip and Puff Operable
- 25. 25 Understandable Understandable Being able to understand content goes beyond comprehending the words, it extends to the UI and UX as well. Presenting a well-structured navigation scheme within a consistent theme allows for a better user experience. Using alerts and avoiding complex sentence structures also play key roles in the overall experience by reducing cognitive load.userinyerface.com
- 26. 26 Robust Robust Providing accessible content begins with semantically correct markup. Doing so ensures the content will be compatible with the range of devices used to consume digital content.
- 27. 27 It Starts with Empathy
- 29. 29 AskYourself Ask Yourself What can I see? Perceivable What can I do? Understandable & Operable How will I do it? Operable
- 30. Turn the brightness or contrast down on your monitor. Perform an action without a mouse. Turn on a screen reader and close your eyes. 30 TryItOut Try It Out
- 31. 31 BeMindfulofOverEngineering Be Mindful of Over Engineering
- 32. 32 Thanks!! Shout out to Mike Lawrence
- 33. 33 I’m Homer Gaines a Certified Accessibility Professional and Front-end Developer who works for UserTesting and we are hiring! @xirclebox
- 34. 34 Resources WCAG 2.1 Quick Reference https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/#top WAI-ARIA https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/ If you’re interested in getting certified https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/certification Run your own test https://www.deque.com/axe/