A presentation at WordPress Accessibility Day by Darice de Cuba
Darice de Cuba 👾 @Darice 👾 darice.org WordPress Accessibility Day October 2, 2020
• Web Developer • Expert by experience • Writer • The Hague food places connoisseur • Tea addict
• ARIA for screen-readers • Keyboard tabbable • Colours with minimum contrast ratio 4.5:1 • @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {} • All testable with tools or manually
• A deaf or hard of hearing person • A person with autism • A person with brain damage • Chronic illness • Depression
“In our lifetime most of us will have to deal with either long term or short-term illness, broken bones, high stress for long period of times. All kinds of illness or injuries that can make you temporary disabled or disabled for the rest of your life.”
• When I was 25 years old, I had a brain haemorrhage • When I was 26 years old, I lost the rest of my hearing
“I don’t consider myself disabled, rather I’m made disabled by the obstacles created by society. A society build only for the seeing, hearing, talking, walking, healthy, straight, cis male, white people.” –Me
deaf: Deaf with a capital D means a person who culturally identifies as a deaf person. deaf with lower d is someone who became deaf later in life. • Born deaf • Sign language is their • deaf later in life/Hard of primary language hearing • Spoken language is their primary language.
Inclusive design is a design approach that takes as many individuals; their background, needs, experience and ability into account from day one of the projects. Accessibility is a part of inclusive design. We want as many people as possible to be able to use our products.
• Real people and not a bot • Reasonable waiting times • Widget works in all modern browsers
A no no-reply mail with no contact info and a website link with only a phone number is not accessible for many people.
No one ever said, “I wish this was written more difficult”.
Captions increase view time of videos on Facebook with 12% • For HoH and d/Deaf people • Watching videos in noisy places or the silent train coupe • SEO • When the spoken language is not your primary language • Accents
.srt files have been popular since the internet was fast enough to download media. Almost everyone always wants subtitles.
• Auto-caption suffers from bias; doesn’t recognise accents • Fails with names • Depends on clear articulation • Depends how slowly someone speaks
“This American Life began transcribing their radio archives in April, 2011 and completed the entire backlog by October, 2011. Since that time, transcripts have been posted within 24 hours after a program airs.” https://www.3playmedia.com/why-3play/case-studies/this-american-life/
Why Transcripts Matters Podcast are inaccessible to: - d/Deaf people HoH people People with hearing sensitivity People with ADHD People in noisy environment People in silent environment (silent train coupe, library) Transcripts are also good for: - SEO - People whose primary language isn’t English - Fast referencing or quoting
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Questions? Darice de Cuba 👾 @Darice 👾 darice.org
Digital accessibility is more than just coding your website according to WCAG, passing tool tests and being usable with screen readers. It’s about inclusive design, which starts on day one of your project. In my talk, I show based on personal stories and real-life examples of how accessibility is part of inclusive design. That it takes more than just valid and accessible code to make your website or product usable for everyone. How diversity helps you avoid pitfalls when designing websites and services.
for free. You
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