Aging people are one of the biggest groups who can benefit from accessibility and especially digital accessibility. But is age-friendly and accessible the same thing? Let's talk about that question in this episode.
Today digital accessibility is often operated untstructured. That makes it very difficult to measure progress and development over time. Let's take a look on how to measure accessibility and why this is important.
Problems are often attributed to the provider of an application. In doing so, we lose sight of the fact that a problem can also come from the person who operates our application. Why this distinction is important is the topic of this episode.
Motor disabled are dependent on digital accessibility. In this episode you can learn which assistive technologies they use and which improvements they need.
Many sighted use Jaws for accessibility testing. I will explain why this is not a good idea and why you should prefer NVDA.
In this episode I would like to discuss wheter sighted persons test with screenreaders or not.
As accessibility pros its important to write helpful detailed reports on found accessibility failures. In this episode I will talk about how to do that.
There is an interesting regularity: When you look for accessibility information of an internationally operating software provider or at least in the Anglo-American area, you will almost always find it. It is not always VPAT or similarly meaningful, but at least you will find a statement. In Germany, the exact opposite is true: if you search for accessibility for the product, you usually find nothing or something very general. I have noticed this with various alternative solutions for online collaboration. For data protection reasons in particular, people want to get away from US providers.
You are welcome to use these requirements for accessible PDFs for your requirements management.
The European Accessibility Act obliges parts of the private sector to be accessible, including banks, book publishers and online shops. Do they already know about that fact?