The Cost of Inaccessibility
What is far more costly?
Inaccessibility
This music production software can be used to successfully create a new project and record an instrument using only a screen reader
What is Ableton Live?
What are some usage forms of text to speech?
Read Long Articles (listen while multitasking), Read Whole Page, Forms/Fields (i.e, mortgage calculators), Reader Mode, Highlight Selection, Reader Mode
How is muscle memory built?
What is practice?
What continues to pile higher year after year?
What are ADA Lawsuits?
This organization offers certifications like the CPACC and WAS
What is the IAAP (International Association for Accessibility Professionals)?
Text-to-Speech as a built in feature on macOS
What is Spoken Content?
What do we build when just by doing things over and over again?
What are skills?
What can range from $5k - $400K?
Settlements
The ability to understand the user's needs
What is empathy?
Who benefits from Text-to-Speech?
not only useful for users who are blind or have partial vision, but also for:
Cognitive or Learning Disabilities: Such as dyslexia.
Sensory Needs: Users who temporarily prefer hearing content over reading a screen.
Multitasking: Users whose hands or attention are busy (e.g., holding a baby, doing dishes, responding to messages).
Chapters include Establish Foundations, Build with Intention and Create Momentum
What is the Coforma Accessibility Playbook?
This act, often cited in lawsuits against inaccessible websites, has seen the number of annual lawsuits on pace to hit almost 5,000.
What is the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)?
The CPACC exam questions are based on this official document - "source of truth for the test."
What is the Body of Knowledge?
What to avoid in CSS to prevent text from being selected with a mouse/cursor?
user-select: none
This responsibility belongs to designers, product managers, content creators, and engineers, aligning with the company's core values.
Accessibility is Everyone's Job
This accessibility company was ordered by the FTC to pay $1 million for falsely promoting that its Access Widget could make websites fully accessible.
What is Accessibe?
In preparing for the certification, the presenter started using this Apple-developed screen reader every day to check websites and applications.
What is VoiceOver?
To provide the correct structure for conversion to speech
Use Semantic HTML
If you see one of these, call the police. These products are often marketed to site owners who don't understand accessibility.
Why are overlays so bad?