The WebAIM Million and making our stuff more accessible

A tiny talk given at the Wellington Open Source Show And Tell https://www.meetup.com/WOSSAT/events/267741635/ meetup, with some highlights (lowlights?) from the WebAIM Million accessibility survey.

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1. The WebAIM Million and
   making our web stuff
   more accessible
   ❤
   

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2. Who am I?
   Steve Barnett
   FED & UX person
   Accessibility at Totara
   

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3. WebAIM Million
   webaim.org/projects/million
   Accessibility analysis
   Top 1 million home pages
   Automated
   

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4. WebAIM Million
   98% of pages had
   WCAG 2.0 failures
   

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5. WebAIM Million
   Average of
   60 errors per page
   

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6. Error (% of pages)
   Empty links (58%)
   Empty buttons (25%)
   

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7. Error (% of pages)
   Missing form labels (52%)
   

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8. The good news
   Automatically detectable
   errors
   For example:
   deque.com/axe
   

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9. Avoid errors in the first place
   Always have
   text equivalents for
   non-text stuff
   Always have labels
   (visible or not)
   

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10. TL;DR: run deque's axe
    Thanks!
    

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