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Rescue the Dead Horse

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September 07, 2021
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Rescue the Dead Horse

A talk about Accessibility Technical Debt

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Eva Ferreira

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Transcript

  1. Rescue the Dead Horse Eva Ferreira – Shift Conference, 2021

  2. First trip since Feb. 2020

  3. Hi! I’m Eva :)

  4. Dead horse? @evaferreira92

  5. Beating a Dead horse @evaferreira92

  6. To waste time and effort trying to do something that

    is impossible. “ ” Mr. Merriam-Webster

  7. Tech Debt.

  8. TECH DEBT.

  9. Memes as a coping mechanism

  10. @evaferreira92

  11. @evaferreira92

  12. @evaferreira92

  13. @evaferreira92

  14. @evaferreira92

  15. @evaferreira92

  16. @evaferreira92

  17. None

  18. What is Technical Debt? And… what isn’t Technical Debt?

  19. ¿Bad Code?

  20. Bad Code = Lack Lack of knowledge, lack of caring,

    lack of quality control

  21. Bad code is usually more harmful than Techical Debt @evaferreira92

  22. ¿Tech Debt?

  23. Technical Debt is a conscious Trade-off

  24. It happens when we choose to gain something otherwise-unattainable immediately

    in return for paying it back (with interest) later on. “ ” Mr. Harry Roberts

  25. It happens when we choose to gain something otherwise-unattainable immediately

    in return for paying it back (with interest) later on. “ ” Mr. Harry Roberts

  26. The Theming Example

  27. !important all the things

  28. This is my garbage and I’m proud of it. @evaferreira92

  29. @evaferreira92

  30. @evaferreira92

  31. Congrats! You have just created Technical Debt! Now… will you

    repay? @evaferreira92
  32. None
  33. None

  34. Consequences of not repaying • Accumulates interests • Snowball effect

    • Team members are sad @evaferreira92

  35. Repaying Tech Debt The Accessibility Part

  36. An annual accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages

  37. How many passed a basic WCAG test?

  38. WCAG includes (but not limited to) • Alternative texts for

    images • AA Contrast ratios • Labels for inputs • Document language attribute • Buttons and links with discernable texts @evaferreira92

  39. At least 20%? @evaferreira92 At least 10%? At least05%?

  40. At least 20%? @evaferreira92 At least 10%? At least05%?

  41. At least 20%? @evaferreira92 At least 10%? At least05%?

  42. At least 20%? @evaferreira92 At least 10%? At least05%?

  43. Only 2,6% passed. @evaferreira92

  44. Most common errors • Lack of alternative texts for images

    • Non-compliance color contrasts • Lack of labels for inputs • Lack of document language attribute • Buttons and links without discernable texts @evaferreira92

  45. <html lang="es">

  46. Fun facts “Despite being 2021, 14,501 home pages had <marquee>

    and 341 home pages had blinking content (<blink> or text-decoration: blink).” https://webaim.org/projects/million/

  47. Why does this happen? Lack of accessibility is more often

    than not, a conscious trade-off.
  48. None

  49. How do we begin repaying? Repaying accessibility technical debt

  50. Current Tech Debt Improvements to current a11y bugs

  51. Spare time to improve it • Small, well-defined tasks 

    15% of sprint • Fix bugs • Rebuild broken components • Build new features  Skip navigation, etc. @evaferreira92

  52. Track and document @evaferreira92

  53. None

  54. You can’t repay what you don’t acknowledge @evaferreira92

  55. Avoid creating more (Accessibility Technical Debt)

  56. Long term warning! The following recommendations might take soooome time

  57. Cultural change in the company You need people who care.

    @evaferreira92

  58. Update processes • Automated tests  Built into CI •

    Manual tests • QA Process • Internal demos with Screen Reader @evaferreira92

  59. Design Systems • Fix a11y here!  Colors, contrast, font-sizes,

    font families  Labels and alts • Whatever what Brad Frost and Jina Anne say @evaferreira92
  60. None

  61. https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/enforcing-accessibility-best-practices- with-automatically-generated-ids/ by Brad Frost

  62. @evaferreira92

  63. Hire Front-end developers @evaferreira92

  64. Hire Front-end developers @evaferreira92

  65. No code can fix bad design. If the design is

    inaccessible, so is the website.

  66. Bad UX flows

  67. None
  68. None
  69. None

  70. @evaferreira92

  71. Team work It’s not 1999 with webmasters doing the whole

    thing anymore
  72. None

  73. You can’t avoid Tech Debt But you CAN avoid putting

    the burden on users with disabilities

  74. Thank you! @evaferreira92