Facts & Stats
Over 1 billion people, or 15% of the global population experience this at some point in their life.
What is disability?
Software that provides an audio output of the contents on a computer screen to enable a user with visual challenges to consume and interact with content.
What is a screen reader?
The purpose of this U.S. law was to provide a clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination of discrimination against individuals with disabilities.
What is Americans with Disabilities Act?
Text associated with an image that conveys the information about the picture
What is Alternative Text?
The universally accepted system of writing used by anf for those who are blind.
What is braille?
Guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to help assess if a website or application is accessible.
What are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or WCAG?
Text version of the speech and sound effects of a television, movie or media presentation.
What is Closed Captioning?
This U.S. law requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities, including employees and members of the public.
What is Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ?
This ratio ensures there is enough difference to separate foreground from background in text and images of text.
DAILY DOUBLE:
What is a color contrast ratio of 4.5:1
An impairment that refers to the loss of movement and sensation in both legs and sometimes lower abdomen.
What is Paraplegia?
Template used for reporting accessibility conformance created by ITI (The Information technology industry council)
What is a VPAT or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template?
Software that started out as a speech to text dictation system in 1990 that is now used by many with mobility challenges to access web content.
Dragon naturally speaking by Nuance Communications
Netflix, Dominos, Winn-Dixie, Nike and Five Guys have this in common
What U.S. companies were sued for violation of ADA for their inaccessible websites?
What are the three critical attributes of an html element that enables a screen reader to communicate interaction instructions to a user.
What are name, role and state?
Most common color combination that impacts 5-8% of all males who are considered color-blind.
Red and green
The four guiding principles for web content accessibility guidelines.
The original name for the screen reader that is known today as "JAWS"
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Job Access with Speech?
This law aims to establish common rules on accessibility in the EU by removing barriers created by differing legislation across individual countries.
What is the European Accessibility Act?
This aria attribute should only be used for time-sensitive/critical notifications that require the user's immediate attention.
What is aria-live="assertive"?
According to the NIH, over one-third of persons in the U.S. over 65 years are affected by this.
What is disabling hearing loss?
$1.2 Trillion
What is the total annual disposable income for persons with disabilities worldwide?
Device that allows people who are unable to use a manual device or audio to access computers or other technology.
What is a Sip and Puff (or SNP) device?
Over 190 countries signed or ratified their Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
What is the United Nations?
This aria attribute takes precedence over all methods of providing an accessible name, including aria-label.
What is aria-labelledby?
A condition that affects the ability to communicate, including speech, writing and understanding of both spoken and written language. Often result of head injury.
What is aphasia?