What is digital accessibility?
What is digital accessibility?
How many people have a disability?
Australians with disability?
18% of Australians have a disability
But! It's complicated…
And we're all getting older
Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA)
Maguire v Sydney Olympics
Everything is online now
Assistive technology
Built-in to your device
How do we check accessibility?
1. Test against a standard
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WCAG Structure
WCAG Principles
WCAG Levels
WCAG standard
WCAG standard in plain language
Automated testing
Manual testing
2. Test with people with disabilities
User testing is great…
… but user testing by people with disabilities is gold
Common ground
1. Technical compliance isn't enough
Our work fits into a larger context
Consequences of mistakes
Consequences of success
Consequences of success
2. It's cheaper to do it early
3. Functional can be beautiful
Ed Roberts Campus
Lessons to share
1. All fixes help someone
What's your specialty?
2. Shift left
Project process
Start anywhere
Shift left
More left
The goal
3. Co-design for specific audiences
Wheelchairs
Freedom Leverage Wheelchair
A quote
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