Digital Accessibility and Disabilities
This is an overiew on disabilities, assistive technologies and accessibility.
This is an overiew on disabilities, assistive technologies and accessibility.
Standards like WCAG cover the technical requirements of blind people for digital user interfaces quite well. However, technical conformity does not have to mean that an application is comfortable to use for blind people. In many cases, applications that are formally accessible but difficult to use tend to deter blind people.
In my opinion, error management does not belong in accessibility, but applies to all users. It is rather tragic that we have had digital formulas for almost 30 years and yet every day we find forms where the basic patterns of good error management are not applied.
The conception is an important phase in the development of an accessible website.Lets take a look on what we should consider in this phase.
The success of digital accessibility is heavily based on Digitization.
Digital accessibility projects are failing because of the same factors. In this episode I want to show how they can be sucessful.
It's no secret that in many cases accessibility hasn't made any progress for years and, more often than not, has gone backwards. While the few experts in technical discourses tangle, accessibility falls by the wayside.
In this interview we talk about barriers for visually impaired in the digital field.
In the future the personal properties in the OS or the browser will become more important then the accessibility of the GUI.