Accessibility

Accessibility

A11y

the quality of being able to be entered or used by everyone, including people who have a disability

1B people on the planet live with a disability

& 110 million have significant difficulties in functionning

Permanent (such as visual impairment)

Temporary (such as a broken finger)

Situational (or contextual)

Visual (blindness, low vision, color blindness)

Hearing (deafness and hearing impairment)

Physical (inability to use a mouse, slower response time, limited fine motor control)

Cognitive (dyslexia and other learning disabilities, distractibility)

Findability

Overall UX improvements

Legal protection

"OpenClassroom's PXT team is truly amazing"

"A group of OpenClassrooms colleagues standing

behind a sign spelling "Education""

Mentors with awareness of disabilities

Internal comity about RQTH

Documented usages around A11Y in

Content A11Y guidelines on ZeroHeight

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aria-live="polite"

Hide it here for screen readers

For everyone:

The A11Y Project website

A11Y Checklist website

The internet's A11Y problem (TED Talk) by Clive Loseby

Accessibility and inclusive design on Coursera

Accessibility for Everyone (Book) by Laura Kalbag

For developers:

A11Y Bookmarklets

Axe Devtools (Chrome extension)

Aria Devtools (Chrome extension)

a11y is a team effort

a11y pitfalls can be spotted as early as the first mockup

tools can help but nothing beats manual testing and knowledge

a11y helps people with disabilities and everyone else (in)directly