Accessibility is more than just supporting screenreaders

My Women in Tech Nottingham talk from 5th July 2018 Oxford, UK. Where I explore how people with cognitive, physical, hearing and sight difficulties experience the web, and how the decisions we make as developers affect their experience.

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1. Accessibility is more than just
   supporting screenreaders
   @ninjanails
   WIT Nott, July 2018
   

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3. https://www.flickr.com/photos/chadsantos/263551766/
   So what is accessibility?
   

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4. Permanent Temporary
   Situational
   Accessibility
   #DYZ
   

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5. Cognitive

   Touch

   Speech

   Hearing

   Sight
   
   
   
   
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6. Cognitive
   https://www.flickr.com/photos/carlos_gq/14693441185/
   

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8. 1 in 10 have Dyslexia
   

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9. Even experts get it wrong sometimes
   

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10. HELLO WORLD
    #DYZ
    

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11. HELLO WORLD
    

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12. Make your text bold
    

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14. Epilepsy
    

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15. 1 in 100 have Epilepsy
    

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16. http://www.stonetwins.com/Enlightenment/Columns/London-2012-Logo
    

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17. Animation
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/pluspunkt/7217738496/
    #DYZ
    

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21. Tipsy/drunk
    

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22. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/01/ui-for-drunks/
    

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23. https://twitter.com/joecainey/status/734212894271799297
    

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24. https://www.flickr.com/photos/roadsidepictures/6643603567/
    Touch or movement
    

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25. Super long pages
    

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26. #DYZ
    Provide back to top links
    

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29. Sight
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/rolfo87/2856584911/
    

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30. Colour blindness
    http://www.colourblindawareness.org/
    

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31. 1 in 12 men are colour blind
    

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37. https://www.flickr.com/photos/soitiki/5089584379/
    Deaf or hard of hearing
    

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38. 1 in 6 have some form of hearing loss
    

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40. Youtube example of
    captioning on videos
    

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41. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kitty-kat/6049220331/
    

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42. https://www.flickr.com/photos/visualanthology/12916267353/
    

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43. https://www.flickr.com/photos/free_for_commercial_use/14375461993/
    @ninajanails
    serendavies.me
    

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