Web Accessibility Directive Puns

Hello!
I have been doing a bootcamp and some self-learning to become a web developer, and I do love it. However, I have legal background relevant to the rights of those with disabilities and it would be prudent to capitalize on my knowledge on both areas to work on accessibility. I have enrolled in the edx courses for web accessibility, is there anything else I can do? Resources, certifications and so on. How would I create work out of this?

Coming soon into full effect (in a month), EU public sector websites and apps will have to be be accessible to people with disabilities. Anyone heard anything about this in context of marketing and SEO? Did Google weigh in? I have clients (e.g. a hospital) asking about this and how it'll affect them.

I don't know whether it's important to learn accessibility or not

We are a group of senior engineering students that are creating a machine learning algorithm to help improve accessibility on the web. Our work is collaborating across multiple institutions and has a high likelihood of being adopted into assistive tech long term. Currently, we are exploring which usability issues affect blind individuals most to determine what specific problem we should work to solve with this project.

If you would be interested is doing an interview to tell us about what works for you on the web and what needs improvement, we would love to hear from you! Interviews are 45 minutes long and will take place over zoom.

We would love to hear about your opinions and experiences, so that we can help build the assistive tech that you want. To schedule an interview or ask any questions about this project, email aswanson@olin.edu. Thanks!

I've been reading Reddit and the rest of the net a lot and it seems like there is a general consensus that accessibility of websites should be considered rather highly.

Is this sage advice? I'm a new dev and designer, and I want to come in with the best practices before my career takes off.

Hello r/disability Reddit Community!

We are a group of undergraduate students at the University of Toronto - Scarborough taking a third year Computer Science course called Human Computer Interaction. One part of our group project consists of performing a research study on individuals with visual or fine motor control disabilities navigating the web. We will then apply this research to design novel interactive tools that could better assist this population when trying to access websites and perform online activities.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are fairly limited on what we can do to obtain the best data. However, in our effort to create the best solutions with the resources we have at our disposal, we developed an online questionnaire that in many ways is meant to replace observational or field studies to the quality it can. If you are an individual with disabilities that affect how you interact with websites and go online (even those we did not list above), we would greatly appreciate it if you could take 20-30 minutes of your time to complete the questionnaire.

Google Forms Questionnaire: https://forms.gle/R35RnRNk8r2G5Jpe8

The survey can be done anonymously (instructions are given in the survey) and does not require you to sign in to a Google Account. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this study you will be given the opportunity to voice them at the end of the survey. You may also contact David Yue for this particular questionnaire, one of the researchers in this study.

Usually Google Forms is quite accessible, however if you do run into particular difficulties filling out the survey, please contact David Yue and we can work out another solution. We wouldn’t want accessibility issues to be the reason we cannot perform research on accessibility issues!

Researchers Contact Information

David Yue <david.yue@mail.utoronto.ca&gt;,

Prav Prabagaran <pravinthan.prabagaran@mail.utoronto.ca&gt;,

Rick Lan <qingyu.lan@mail.utoronto.ca&gt;,

Maggie Dang <maggie.dang@mail.utoronto.ca&gt;,

Bryan Oladeji <bryan.oladeji@mail.utoronto.ca&gt;,

Ohm Negi <ohm.negi@mail.utoronto.ca&gt;

Hi there! I am a User Experience researcher/designer (I make things more usable and easily understood to people) and I am very interested in ASL and the Deaf community.

I have recently been thinking about the challenges Deaf and HoH people face using apps or websites which prompted this question; besides adding captions to videos which I understand can be helpful...

• What problems do you face using technology?
• Is this an area that needs improving? Do you know of companies that are currently trying to solve these challenges?
• What solutions do you propose/what would make your life easier and better?

My only goal and objective here is to be an ally for the Deaf and HoH communities and utilize my user experience skills to come up with possible solutions. I am trying to learn more, so please correct me if I am saying something offensive or hurtful so I can better my language and terminology! Thank you!

I’m usually wary of web dev certs, but I’m genuinely interested in learning this topic more deeply and I know I’d appreciate seeing it on a candidate’s resume.

Was wondering if other folks had taken the exam.

https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/wascertification#About%20WAS

Curious to know your thoughts. While surfing on mobile phones why are the menu options on the top left or right? Shouldn’t this be on the bottom left or right for better user accessibility and helpful to reach in big phones.

I’ve not seen any website do this. Hoping for some clarification towards this.

I’m building my portfolio web and planning to setup the menu bar at the bottom left or right. Correct me if I’m missing something here.