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Accessibilitype! Erik Vorhes · Web Afternoon · 4 October 2013

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Accessibility is about inclusion.

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Accessibility is about breaking down barriers.

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Accessibility is not only about blindness.

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Guess that typeface!

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Verdana

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Georgia

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Comic Sans

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[Zapf Dingbats]

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Accessible Type

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1Il 0Ooa ij Helvetica 1Il 0Ooa ij Georgia 1Il 0Ooa ij Lucida Grande 1Il 0Ooa ij Times New Roman 1Il 0Ooa ij Verdana 1Il 0Ooa ij Trebuchet 1Il 0Ooa ij Comic Sans

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What about webfonts?

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Accessible Typography

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• Whitespace • Size • Color & Contrast • Weight

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In Action

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The Wife’s Lament Exeter Book, folio 115ª

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Resources Web Content Accessibility Guidelines http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php WebAIM http://webaim.org Colo(u)r Contrast http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker xScope http://xscopeapp.com Typecast http://typecast.com Explorations in Typography http://explorationsintypography.com Butterick’s Practical Typography http://practicaltypography.com

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Thank you! http://erik.vorh.es @erikvorhes “accessibilitype!” · Web afternoon · atlanta