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$10M

Vue your media with  accessibility

🤓 #m16y 🤓

Me as 👩‍💻

Senior FrontEnd Developer

@MayaShavin

This talk is about...

  • 🤔  What is media accessibility?
  • 😰  The current challenges
  • ✅  Techniques for media accessibility
  • 🚀  Developing efficient accessibility policy

Accessibility is

See

Understand

Use

Media Accessibility (m16y)

Use of color

Background images

Visual alternative

😰 Challenges

Photophobia

Light sensitivity

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Contrast sensitivity

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https://www.uat.edu

Deuteranopia

Tritanopia

The color game

Achromatopsia 

Blindness

✅ Techniques

Dark Mode

Light Mode

filter
invert()
.darkMode {
    filter: invert(1);
}

Contrast sensitivity

.container {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    position: relative;
    background-color: black;
}
.banner {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    opacity: 0.6;
}
.title {
    z-index: 2;
    font-size: 50px;
    color: white;
}
.container {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    position: relative;
    background-color: black;
}
.banner {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    opacity: 0.6;
}

I'm a title

.banner {
    filter: brightness(
        var(--bannerBrightness)
    );
}
.title {
    position: absolute;
    margin: auto;
    z-index: 2;
    font-size: 50px;
    color: white;
}
<img class="banner"
.../>
<img class="banner"
    style="--bannerBrightness:60%"
.../>
.banner {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    opacity: 0.6;
}
.title {
    z-index: 2;
    font-size: 50px;
    color: white;
}

I'm a title

Color blind?

No CSS Solution!

😱

Achromatopsia

<img 
    alt="Superdry Dry Originals Pocket T-Shirt"
    data-color="Vintage Brick Red"
    ...
/>

👑 Extra guidelines

WAI-ARIA

The a11y relationship

Browser DOM

WAI ARIA

Assistive Technology

roles
states
properties

Example

<button
    aria-disabled=”false"
>
    Place order
</button>
<div
    role=”button"
    aria-disabled=”false"
>
    Place order
</div>

Text & Texture

An icon is  worth a thousand words

Color combination 🎨

⚒️ Tools

Axe

Lighthouse

NoCoffee Simulator

Sim Daltonism

Take action 📢

  • ✅    Be intuitive
  • ✅   Apply WAI-ARIA (good for SEO & screen reader)
  • ✅   Image Alt & description is a must!
  •     Pay attention to color combination - use Simulator!
  •     Test accessibility with Axe, Accessibility Insights or Lighthouse

Projects & Links 🚀