Its Spelled Accessibility not Disability
summary
Claim: making sites accessible boosts SEO, mobile UX and can increase user base by 20% while reaching 1.1 billion disabled users (global market ~ $8 trillion). Concrete fixes shown: add WebVTT captions, use semantics instead of div/span, ensure color contrast and alt text. Measured scale of failure: WebAIM finds 60 million errors across the top 1M homepages (~60 errors/homepage; 98% have errors; 80% poor contrast; two‑thirds missing alt). Demos use speechSynthesis and TensorFlow.js + PoseNet ASL → Alexa integration.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to accessibility
- 2:28Universal design over disability
- 4:56Real-world universal design examples
- 17:55Web development and semantics
- 26:56Testing with screen readers
- 33:33Adding closed captions and speech
- 38:59Market impact of accessibility
- 47:07Summary and call to action
related talks
51mIt's Spelled 'Accessibility', not 'Disability'
21mWhy Accessibility Benefits Us All
03mIt's spelled "accessibility," not "disability"
41mAccessibility is a Requirement
54mAccessibility by everyone (and for everyone)
40mAccessibility, what, why and how?
01h 01mFull Stack Accessibility, and the Business Case for being Inclusive
49mLost in Translation