2014 Web Accessibility for Everyone Ramya Sethuraman Accessibility Engineer, Facebook Oct 10, 2014 #GHC

Building an Accessible Web  People  Code  Culture  Change

2014 People with disabilities on the web Visual ~10% of all American adults Hearing ~13% of total US population MotorCognitive

2014 Code: Take a HIKE!  Headings  Images  Keyboard  Extra love (ARIA) *ARIA – Accessible Rich Internet Applications

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2014 Company/Culture

2014 Core components

2014 Testing & Training  Accessibility in your existing test plans  Accessibility in your existing processes  Automated testing  Ownership

2014 Documentation

2014 Communication

2014 Blueprint  Make your core components accessible  Testing & Training  Documentation  Communication  …

2014 Beyond code.  Facilities  Ergonomics  Diversity group  Differently-abled group  Recruiting

2014 So, why haven’t we solved accessibility yet?

2014 Education

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Ambassadors

2014 Make accessibility mainstream

2014 A Change in our mindset  Accessibility  Code Quality  Accessibility  Front end engineering  Accessibility  Culture

2014 Whom are we fixing the world for?

2014 For Stephen Hawking…

2014 And our older selves.

2014 People, code, culture...change An accessible web.

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