How to improve your website’s accessibility without going crazy
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This document provides an overview of how to improve the accessibility of a website without making it overly complex. It begins by defining web accessibility and its importance for people with disabilities. It then addresses common questions about accessibility and provides resources on getting started, following guidelines, and ensuring usability. The key messages are that accessibility should be considered from the beginning, not as an afterthought, and that it leads to a better user experience for all while allowing a website to reach more people.
How to improve your website’s accessibility without going crazy
- 1. Howto Improve Your Website’s Accessibility Without Going Crazy Eric Eggert ee@w3.org • yatil W3C/Web Accessibility Initiative
- 5. – w3.org/accessibility The Web is fundamentally designed to work for all people, whatever their hardware, software, language, culture, location, or physical or mental ability. When the Web meets this goal, it is accessible to people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, and cognitive ability.
- 6. Accessibility: Make sure that People with disabilities can effectively interact with the Web
- 7. – Aaron Gustafson (Foreword in: Sarah Horton. “A Web for Everyone.”) “On the web, every decision I make can have a profound effect on hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people’s lives. I can make checking into a flight a breeze, or I can make it a living hell. That’s a lot of power. And to quote Stan Lee: ‘With great power comes great responsibility.’”
- 8. >1 billion Persons with some form of disability — WHO Report 2011
- 9. 15% Persons with some form of disability — WHO Report 2011
- 10. @dstorey
- 12. users is People
- 16. Zoom
- 17. Pinch Out by Julie Muckensturm from the Noun Project
- 19. Single Switch
- 20. Braille
- 21. customizations
- 22. Captions
- 23. Resource: How People with Disabilities Use the Web w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web/
- 25. Q: How do I start with Accessibility?
- 32. Resource: Tips for getting started with web accessibility w3.org/WAI/gettingstarted/tips/
- 33. Q: How do I make sure my website is accessible?
- 34. Resource: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 w3.org/TR/WCAG/
- 39. <button title="Edit"> <span class="icon icon-pencil"> </span> </button>
- 40. <button title="Edit"> <span class="icon icon-pencil-kaput“> </span> </button>
- 42. ImageS
- 47. Page structure (Draft) Menus (Draft) images Tables forms carousels (Draft) </aside>
- 51. Operable: usable with a Keyboard
- 58. Q: How do I make sure that the user experience is accessible?
- 59. You achiEve the best results when…
- 61. Smooth use of your product
- 63. No compromises
- 64. No need to rebuild
- 67. makes your web project easy to understand
- 71. Consider the order of the content
- 72. Take the available data and do something no one expects
- 74. thankyou. Eric Eggert W3C/Web accessibility initiative ee@w3.org & @yatil