FT Accessibility 101

Lightning talk about accessibility for the FT

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1. Alice Bartlett
   Origami Lead, Financial Times
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   Accessibility 101
   

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2. WHAT IS
   ACCESSIBILITY?
   

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3. WebAim reckons there are 4
   categories of impairment:
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4. 1. visual
   2. hearing
   3. motor
   4. cognitive
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5. This way of thinking about
   accessibility is not perfect
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6. GDS
   Anne Gibson has
   written about this
   over on A List Apart
   

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7. Accessibility needs can be long
   term
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8. You have epilepsy
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9. You’re blind
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10. You have learning difficulties
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11. Accessibility needs can be
    temporary
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12. You have a migraine
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13. You break your arm
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14. You develop RSI
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15. You’re in a very noisy and
    chaotic environment
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16. Give users as many ways as
    possible to access your website
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17. There are technologies that can
    help for many impairments
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18. Screen readers
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19. Dictation software
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20. Keyboards
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21. And there are some
    improvements that aren’t
    technology based
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22. Colour choices
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23. Sentence length
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24. Language
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25. Information architecture
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26. So reaching a good level of
    accessibility means supporting
    a variety of assistive tech, and
    designing your site thoughtfully
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27. That involves everyone.
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28. Accessibility is
    everyone’s
    responsibility
    

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29. Vox Media have a checklist for
    their designers, pms, qa, and
    developers (link at the end)
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30. The Straw Test
    

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32. @alicebartlett
    

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33. WHY?
    

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34. The Equality Act
    (2010)
    

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35. “The duty to
    make reasonable
    adjustments”
    

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