Accessibility Basics
The global resource for digital accessibility standards is called what?
WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
W3C WCAG
This US regulation on disability rights was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H.W. Bush.
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act
This digital accessibility feature helps people who cannot rely on their hearing to understand movies or videos.
Captions
Captioning, Closed Captioning, CC
Subtitles
According to the World Health Organization, this is the approximate percentage of people in the world living with a disability.
16-20% - we'll take anything within that range
Essential products, equipment, and systems that assist people with disabilities in using digital technology are commonly called this.
Assistive Technology
AT
Disability aids (or similar)
This US regulation, which is also a set of standards, mandates accessibility for federal agencies and their electronic and information technology.
Section 508
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
This common assistive device is used by people who rely on their hearing to navigate a website or mobile app.
What is a screen reader?
There are four major types of disability: visual, hearing, motor, and what?
Cognitive
The numeronym for accessibility.
DAILY DOUBLE - get an additional 300.
Describe why the numeronym stands for accessibility.
A11Y (A-one-one-Y)
Daily Double: There are 11 numbers between the A and the Y
This EU law is designed to improve the accessibility of products and services for people with disabilities. It also goes into effect in June 2025.
EAA
European Accessibility Act
This digital accessibility tool allows users with and without disabilities to navigate a website without a mouse.
Keyboard
Keyboard navigation
This term means that a disability is not immediately seen or detected by someone else.
Non-apparent disability
Hidden or invisible disability
This WCAG criteria ensures that there is enough color difference to separate foreground from background in text or non-text elements.
Contrast/Color Contrast
Non-Text Contrast
Contrast ratios
1.4.3 or 1.4.11
This law in Ontario, Canada, mandates that organizations in both the public and private sectors identify and remove accessibility barriers.
AODA
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
This is a brief text description added to images on websites and mobile apps so that people who rely on screen readers can understand them.
Alt text
Alternative text
Text alternatives
This term is used by people who consider their disability as part of their identity.
Identity-first
Identity-first language
The sequential order that interactive elements on a webpage (like links, buttons, and form fields) receive focus when a user navigates using the keyboard or screen reader.
Focus order
Tab order
This set of standards, or success criteria, enables European organizations to measure the accessibility of websites, electronic documents, and non-web software, for all people, including those with disabilities.
EN 301 549
This is a commonly known screen reader. There are multiple answers, and we'll accept any of them.
For the DAILY DOUBLE, name more than one.
JAWS
NVDA
VoiceOver
TalkBack
Narrator
This term puts the person before the disability, and the disability might not be seen as part of the person's identity.
Person-first (language)
People-first (language)