HEH 25: Let’s Get Accessible!

Dan and Dave bring an enlightening report back from the CSUN Accessibility Conference in lovely San Diego, CA.

Dan and Dave just got back from CSUN Accessibility Conference

• “Everyone will have a disability at some point in their life”
• Accessibility is just a branch of usability
• The UN has a ratification to make all their technology accessible
  • Voice assistance and AI is on the rise making much more controllable via voice
• Target had an inaccessible app and added someone to their team who was blind to work with them on the development of this app.
• ARIA is somewhat of an override (last resort) way to change something that you can’t do in the code or HTML.
• Using HTML5 tags the way they are intended to be used is a huge step in the right direction.
• How do persons with disabilities use mobile devices?
• What’s the future of accessibility policy in higher ed? In the USA?
• The easiest way to get buy-in would be to just have a disabled person show how they work through a site or an app.
• How to test:
  • VNDA tool to see how it works
  • Turn on voice controls on Mac
  • Just try to tab through a website without a mouse