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FT Accessibility 101

Alice Bartlett
September 15, 2016

FT Accessibility 101

Lightning talk about accessibility for the FT

Alice Bartlett

September 15, 2016
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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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  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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