What is digital accessibility?
- Beyond websites: Mobile apps
- WCAG 2.1 Level AA
- Allows people with disabilities to access same information and engage in same transactions at same time with equivalent ease of use
- People with all disabilities
- Blind/low vision
- Deaf/hearing loss
- Manual dexterity
- Cognitive
- Coding to work with assistive technology and to work for people with disabilities
- Alt text for images
- Labeled form fields
- Keyboard-only navigation
- Color contrast
- Proper use of headings
- Captions and audio description for video
- No flashing content
- Color not the only means of conveying information
Why are we talking about digital accessibility?
Ethical, Diversity, equity, and inclusion, Security/privacy, Good business… and it’s a civil right!
- There are about 200 million active websites in the world (a little over 1 billion total) and more added every minute
- Of the top million homepages, 95.9% have accessibility barriers (WebAIM 2024)
- Down from 97.8% 5 years ago
- Average of 56.8 errors per page
- Up from 50 in 2023
- Number of pages with fewer errors has increased while the number of pages with many errors has also increased.