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Accessibility auditing and pushing for more
Posted February 14, 2021 in Accessibility.
A great article by Eric Bailey crossed my twitter stream: “Accessibility auditing and ego“. It triggered a couple of thoughts I would like to “yes and…”.
I paused at this comment about WCAG:
it is a standard that sets normative, objective criteria for what is and what is not accessible
I mildly disagree with WCAG saying what is accessible. My logic goes like this:
Digital Accessibility is: How easy it is for someone with a disability to use this digital product. (Like usability, an attribute of a product.)
The things which impact accessibility can be from the full range of human-related issues. Going back to the Elements of user experience, it could be that the interface simply doesn’t fulfil the user-need, or feature set isn’t right./li>
Areas which guidelines can cover tend to be at the interaction/information/visual design layers.
There are areas of the experience which no guideline can cover, therefore guidelines alone cannot say what is accessible.
An example of the feature set not being right (for accessibility) is: If you provide a listing of TV programs, a small proportion of which are audio described, a make-or-break feature is to show which have audio description. Otherwise you [...]
