Blog posts tagged with the following topic: "accessibility"
Web Chat accessibility considerations
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Web Chat relies on real time information and notifications, so you're going to need to use several features of Aria (Accessible Rich Internet Applications).
In this post, I'm going to cover in detail which of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) you're going to need to consider, and some examples of how you can use advanced attributes to give screen reader users the best possible experience.
In this post, I just want to talk through what alt text is, why it matters, and how to avoid some common mistakes!
I know alt text posts are common, but I feel compelled to write it given that it's 2023, and I still see a lot of the same issues I've been seeing for years.
For those who build websites, digital services or mobile applications, or if you just care about making the internet more accessible in general, then this is big news!
So, lets have a look at what all the fuss is about!
European Accessibility Act: Article 32, and why it sucks!
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I recently wrote a blog post called European Accessibility Act: What you need to know and it created a bit of a stir, and a really interesting question came up around Article 32, which is all about transitional measures.
Now, you might be thinking, 'Transitional what?' So let's dive into it together and try to make sense of it.
The European Accessibility Act and its impact on the private sector.
Learn the differences between the EAA, EU Accessibility Directive, Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations, and EN 301 549, and discover top tips to prepare your business for compliance with the EAA.
The term ‘microservice’ is becoming more and more popular when you look across the Digital landscape of a lot of big organisations.
Several Government departments, and several large organisations I've spoken to recently, are all looking at this approach; because, if executed well, it saves time and money, and they create consistency for users.
However, as more and more organisations try to leverage microservices, the pitfalls of accessibility are perhaps not being fully considered.
What I'm really tired of, is reading conformance reports from third party suppliers who are trying to push their inaccessible products for large sums of money under the guise that it is accessible.
These chancers often state that some of the criteria is 'partially supported', 'supported with exceptions' or any number of different ways to carefully word the fact that it does not support a particular accessibility feature.
And, it's not just one company, they're all doing it.
These two criteria are important, because they help screen readers to read out the language correctly. If your page is set to English, but some of your content is not English, then the screen reader is just going to attempt to pronounce it in English anyway, which can lead to some pretty weird results.
The number of people in the UK living with a disability is rising.
It's currently accepted that in the UK it is around 1 in 5 people, or 20%. And, from 2012 to 2019, there has been a further 3% increase in the 'official statistics'.
The number of children reported to have a disability has risen 2%, from 6% to 8%
The number of working age adults reported to have a disability has risen 3%, from 16% to 19%.
The number of adults over State Pension age reported to have a disability has risen 1%, from 45% to 46%.