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a11y:

a-ccessibilit-y

 

Making the web more accessible for everyone

What

  • 🤲 Accessibility is everyone's responsibility
  • 🔑 Four key areas of disability to consider:
    • visual
    • hearing
    • mobility
    • cognition
  • Conditional disabilities:
    • broken arm
    • local language
    • loud restaurant
  • 👫 The a11y project aims to reduce complexity and difficulty in implementing accessibility throughout the web 

Why

  • 🙋‍♀️ Customer experience. Again, accessibility is everyone's responsibility
  • 📊 By the estimates:
    • 1.3bn people have some form of vision impairment (WHO, October 2018)
      • 188mn mild
      • 217mn moderate to severe
      • 36mn blind
    • 466mn people have some form of disabling hearing loss (WHO, March 2018)
  • 🦘 Australia's population: 24.6mn...

How

npm install -g a11y

a11y macquarie.com
a11y motome.com.au

In your terminal (Node module):

In your browser (Google Lighthouse Audit):

In your build pipeline (webpack, aaS):

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