Accessibility is a design choice

A presentation at UXcamp Europe 2023 in June 2023 in Berlin, Germany by Gunnar Bittersmann

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Accessibility is a design choice

Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n #uxce23

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Top design-focused issues of 2022:

83.9% Low text color contrast
77.3% Empty links & buttons
55.4% Missing image alt text
50.3% Skipped & missing headings
46.1% Missing form labels

→ noti.st/cariefisher/Bin4xT

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Low text color contrast

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Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run album cover

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Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run album cover

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Screenshot of codepen “Born to color contrast” with developer toolbar open, showing color contrast checker

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Empty links & buttons

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Screenshot of codepen “Discovery: accessible scroll buttons”

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A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions by Stéphanie Walter

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inclusice design 24 #id24 will return on 21 September 2013

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Missing image alt text

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Screenshot of UXcamp Europe 23 homepage with developer toolbar open, showing alternative text “UXcamp Europe logo”, should be: “homepage”

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“Universal law is for lackeys. Context is for kings.” — Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery S1:E2

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Skipped & missing headings

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Screenshot of codepen “Heading hierarchy”

sample text: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Screenshot of Tagesspiegel section page, top heading styled as breadcrumb item

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The Elements of User Experience diagram by Jesse James Garrett

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Missing form labels

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Screenshot of codepen “search form”

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Accessibility is a design choice

Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n #uxce23

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Leaving no-one behind is a design choice

Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n #uxce23

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Marcy Sutton .com (on accessibility)

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Leaving no-one behind is a design choice

Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n #uxce23

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Tom Hanks is Forrest Gump