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The WebAIM Million and making our stuff more accessible

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.

Steve Barnett

February 18, 2020
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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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