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How to Begin Remediating Your Website’s Inaccessibility

Sparkbox
March 25, 2021

How to Begin Remediating Your Website’s Inaccessibility

Learn to diagnose accessibility issues on your legacy site and find helpful starting points for embracing inclusive solutions.

Sparkbox

March 25, 2021
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  1. How to begin remediating
    your website’s inaccessibility.
    Heather Taylor, CPWA | Frontend Designer

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  2. Common pitfalls when
    working to improve site
    accessibility

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  3. Pitfall #1


    The compliance "checkbox" culture

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  4. Pitfall #2


    Treating accessibility as an afterthought

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  5. Pitfall #3


    Ignoring the enormous spending
    capacity of people with disabilities

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  6. Pause. Re
    fl
    ect.

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  7. A few ways people use the
    web di
    ff
    erently

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  8. People with Visual Disabilities
    Blindness


    Low vision


    Color blindness

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  11. People with Auditory Disabilities
    Hard of hearing


    Deafness

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  13. People with Motor Disabilities
    Inability to use a mouse


    Slow response time


    Limited
    fi
    ne motor control

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  15. People with Cognitive Disabilities
    Have a greater di
    ff
    i
    culty with
    mental tasks than the average
    person.

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  17. Start the Conversation!

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