FT Accessibility 101

Lightning talk about accessibility for the FT

Transcript

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