FT Accessibility 101

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1. Alice Bartlett Origami Lead, Financial Times @alicebartlett Accessibility 101

2. WHAT IS ACCESSIBILITY?

3. WebAim reckons there are 4 categories of impairment: @alicebartlett

4. 1. visual 2. hearing 3. motor 4. cognitive @alicebartlett

5. This way of thinking about accessibility is not perfect @alicebartlett

6. GDS Anne Gibson has written about this over on A

   List Apart

7. Accessibility needs can be long term @alicebartlett

8. You have epilepsy @alicebartlett

9. You’re blind @alicebartlett

10. You have learning difficulties @alicebartlett

11. Accessibility needs can be temporary @alicebartlett

12. You have a migraine @alicebartlett

13. You break your arm @alicebartlett

14. You develop RSI @alicebartlett

15. You’re in a very noisy and chaotic environment @alicebartlett

16. Give users as many ways as possible to access your

    website @alicebartlett

17. There are technologies that can help for many impairments @alicebartlett

18. Screen readers @alicebartlett

19. Dictation software @alicebartlett

20. Keyboards @alicebartlett

21. And there are some improvements that aren’t technology based @alicebartlett

22. Colour choices @alicebartlett

23. Sentence length @alicebartlett

24. Language @alicebartlett

25. Information architecture @alicebartlett

26. So reaching a good level of accessibility means supporting a

    variety of assistive tech, and designing your site thoughtfully @alicebartlett

27. That involves everyone. @alicebartlett

28. Accessibility is everyone’s responsibility

29. Vox Media have a checklist for their designers, pms, qa,

    and developers (link at the end) @alicebartlett

30. The Straw Test

31. @alicebartlett

32. @alicebartlett

33. WHY?

34. The Equality Act (2010)

35. “The duty to make reasonable adjustments”

36. 1. http://accessibility.voxmedia.com/ 2. http://alistapart.com/article/reframing-accessibility- for-the-web @alicebartlett