A11y: Myths and Misconceptions
summary
Web accessibility matters because concrete numbers and tools show real impact: automated tests catch ~30% of issues so combine Lighthouse/axe/WAVE/tota11y with human testing and multiple screen reader+browser combos; building accessibility from the start increases effort by about 5% whereas retrofitting can double or triple costs; roughly one billion people have disabilities and businesses lose around £2 billion when sites block purchases; captions, keyboard navigation and semantic HTML demonstrably make products usable and legally safer.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 0:24Introduction
- 3:49Accessibility Benefits Only a Small Minority
- 4:45Visual Impairment
- 10:07Overview
- 11:04Testing
- 17:01Accessibility Is Ugly
- 18:05Accessibility Breaks My Design
- 19:29Accessibility Is Boring
- 20:59Recap
- 21:58Accessibility Benefits
- 23:46Why Do You Think Accessibility Is So Underrated
- 25:07What Are some some Steps We Can Take to Active Actively Include Accessibility in Mind as We Are Designing Building a Project
- 26:27What Solutions Can We Come Up with Uh To Raise Awareness of People To Start Paying More Attention to Accessibility
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