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.

Transcript

1. The WebAIM Million and making our web stuff more accessible ❤
2. Who am I? Steve Barnett FED & UX person Accessibility at Totara
3. WebAIM Million webaim.org/projects/million Accessibility analysis Top 1 million home pages Automated
4. WebAIM Million 98% of pages had WCAG 2.0 failures
5. WebAIM Million Average of 60 errors per page
6. Error (% of pages) Empty links (58%) Empty buttons (25%)
7. Error (% of pages) Missing form labels (52%)
8. The good news Automatically detectable errors For example: deque.com/axe
9. Avoid errors in the first place Always have text equivalents for non-text stuff Always have labels (visible or not)
10. TL;DR: run deque's axe Thanks!