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Eva Ferreira
September 07, 2021
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Rescue the Dead Horse
A talk about Accessibility Technical Debt
Eva Ferreira
September 07, 2021
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Rescue the Dead Horse Eva Ferreira – Shift Conference, 2021
First trip since Feb. 2020
Hi! I’m Eva :)
Dead horse? @evaferreira92
Beating a Dead horse @evaferreira92
To waste time and effort trying to do something that
is impossible. “ ” Mr. Merriam-Webster
Tech Debt.
TECH DEBT.
Memes as a coping mechanism
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What is Technical Debt? And… what isn’t Technical Debt?
¿Bad Code?
Bad Code = Lack Lack of knowledge, lack of caring,
lack of quality control
Bad code is usually more harmful than Techical Debt @evaferreira92
¿Tech Debt?
Technical Debt is a conscious Trade-off
It happens when we choose to gain something otherwise-unattainable immediately
in return for paying it back (with interest) later on. “ ” Mr. Harry Roberts
It happens when we choose to gain something otherwise-unattainable immediately
in return for paying it back (with interest) later on. “ ” Mr. Harry Roberts
The Theming Example
!important all the things
This is my garbage and I’m proud of it. @evaferreira92
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Congrats! You have just created Technical Debt! Now… will you
repay? @evaferreira92
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Consequences of not repaying • Accumulates interests • Snowball effect
• Team members are sad @evaferreira92
Repaying Tech Debt The Accessibility Part
An annual accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages
How many passed a basic WCAG test?
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
At least 20%? @evaferreira92 At least 10%? At least05%?
At least 20%? @evaferreira92 At least 10%? At least05%?
At least 20%? @evaferreira92 At least 10%? At least05%?
At least 20%? @evaferreira92 At least 10%? At least05%?
Only 2,6% passed. @evaferreira92
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
<html lang="es">
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/
Why does this happen? Lack of accessibility is more often
than not, a conscious trade-off.
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How do we begin repaying? Repaying accessibility technical debt
Current Tech Debt Improvements to current a11y bugs
Spare time to improve it • Small, well-defined tasks
15% of sprint • Fix bugs • Rebuild broken components • Build new features Skip navigation, etc. @evaferreira92
Track and document @evaferreira92
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You can’t repay what you don’t acknowledge @evaferreira92
Avoid creating more (Accessibility Technical Debt)
Long term warning! The following recommendations might take soooome time
Cultural change in the company You need people who care.
@evaferreira92
Update processes • Automated tests Built into CI •
Manual tests • QA Process • Internal demos with Screen Reader @evaferreira92
Design Systems • Fix a11y here! Colors, contrast, font-sizes,
font families Labels and alts • Whatever what Brad Frost and Jina Anne say @evaferreira92
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https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/enforcing-accessibility-best-practices- with-automatically-generated-ids/ by Brad Frost
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Hire Front-end developers @evaferreira92
Hire Front-end developers @evaferreira92
No code can fix bad design. If the design is
inaccessible, so is the website.
Bad UX flows
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Team work It’s not 1999 with webmasters doing the whole
thing anymore
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You can’t avoid Tech Debt But you CAN avoid putting
the burden on users with disabilities
Thank you! @evaferreira92