Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023: Building Accessibility Into Websites  ## Metadata - Author: [[Accessibility Craft]] - Full Title: Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023: Building Accessibility Into Websites - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/1b764327-f82c-4bec-bec4-a08b1bdcde91 ## Document Notes ## Highlights - The Importance of Accessibility in the Web Successful use of the web has both a structural and knowledge precondition. In addition to visual impairments, websites should consider issues affecting people with motor challenges, such as arthritis or limited mobility. Problems can arise from mismatched code and visible labels, small tap target sizes, and lack of captions or transcripts. It's important to consider temporary and future impairments, as well as browser and device compatibility. Affordable access to technology is crucial. Following standards, partnering with accessibility experts, and involving people with disabilities in the process can have a significant impact. This episode of Accessibility Craft is sponsored by the Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker, a WordPress plugin for identifying accessibility problems. Transcript: Speaker 2 So there's a structural precondition as well as a knowledge precondition for successful use on the web. Does that kind of work in power? Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm thinking. Amber, can you share some problems on websites that might impact other populations? Speaker 2 Sure, yeah, so outside of things that have to do with visual impairments, there may be people who have motor challenges for a variety of reasons. It could be as simple as an older person who has arthritis and they have less flexibility or it could be someone who has either missing limbs or no ability to move their limbs for one reason Or another. So there's kind of a broad spectrum there. And so problems that can come into play could be if you're using something where you speak and the computer has to interpret and if the code behind on what a button or a link is doesn't actually Match what the visible label is and they speak out to go to that element, it might not be able to find the element and go to the element. There can be problems with mobility if you are on a mobile device and you have a tap target size, which is like the size of the button is too small. And honestly, that can cause problems for typically able people too that just have very large things. So there's things like that that can impact the ability for people to use things. Of course, captions are really important. We have a live captioner here today, writing out captions for live events, but prerecorded media should have captions transcripts, which can help. These are people who normally always consider themselves to be part of the disabled population, but people who have learning disabilities or dyslexia, being able to read content Can sometimes help them process or having a transcript that doesn't move at the same speed as the captions so they could read the transcript would be helpful as well in some scenarios. So those are some things I can think of for other populations. Tanner and Steve might have thoughts to add as well. Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, I guess the only thing I would probably add is a lot of times we don't consider like people with temporary impairments or even future impairments. Like we're all aging, right? And that's why I go back to, you know, I always kind of harken back to the accessibility first mindset because, you know, like the goal here is to build an accessible future. And I think that's the developer's responsibility too, because you may be developing something that you may benefit from in the future due to some either temporary or future impairment Of your own. I think like there's also like browser and device compatibility issues that can come up between, you know, where things where like developers are not execute, they're not probably Testing all the devices and all the platforms and all the operating systems and all the access to technology to make sure that it works across all those devices because you can run into Issues where, and that kind of ties in a little bit too with you can run into even income variations or disparities, right? Like where, you know, some people may not be able to afford, you know, a $2,500 Mac computer that can run the heaviest, most bloated website, right? They may be running like on a $2 or $300 laptop. And so we have a responsibility to make performance websites so that they can access those on the device that they can afford. I think that's what I would just add. Tanner, you got anything else? I would just, you know, the thing that I would say is like what we're talking about here is like a wide range of disabilities, a lot of people have multiple disabilities. I'm one of those people. And so how do we know what the work is doing that is actually going to make the biggest impact? And I think that if you follow the standards, you work with a partner that can help you get there and then you incorporate people with disabilities into the process, like then you can, That's, you know, if you're doing those things, that's how you get the whitest, the biggest impact for the biggest bank in the world. This episode of Accessibility Craft is sponsored by Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker. The WordPress plugin that helps you find accessibility problems before you hit publish. 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