Accessibility Essentials

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1. Accessibility Essentials Amy Letson @accessamy 'burbs WP November 14, 2016
2. What is Accessibility? #a11y 19% of U.S. population has a disability. 31% of U.S. families have at least one member with a disability. ~ NCD's National Disability Policy Progress Report, October 2016 How do you build an accessible website? How do you check a site's accessibility?
3. Building Sites: Categories of Disability
4. Building Sites • Everyone says a11y should be "baked in." Everyone is correct. • Consider: vision, hearing, mobility, cognition. • Who might your site visitors be? Personae. • Follow best practices: validate. • Follow guidelines: WCAG 2.0, maybe Section 508. • References, e.g. http://webaim.org/resources/evalquickref/
5. Testing • Get others to test. • Try tab-navigating. • Free screen reader: NVDA. VoiceOver included in new Macs. • Toolbars/Extensions/Bookmarklets • Browser-based testing: Tenon • Paid services: Compliance Sheriff, Deque • Don't forget visual checks.
6. WordPress https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready/
7. Etc. Captions! Watch a JAWS demo. ARIA landmark roles.
8. Accessibility Essentials Amy Letson @accessamy 'burbs WP November 14, 2016 www.accessamy.com/resources/a11y-2016.html