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Introduction to design AccessibilityDesign for everyone

Sultan Shalakhti June 2014⎪

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Some of your audience might not

be able to:

See well or at allHear well or at all

Move well or at all Speak well or at all

Understand information in some ways well or at all.

Accessib i l i ty is

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Accessibility Levels

Priority 1 or 'A' level accessibility Achieving this level is a basic requirement for some groups to be able to access information and use Web documents.

Priority 2 or 'AA' level accessibility if this and priority 1 are satisfied Achieving this level will remove significant barriers to accessing information in web documents.

Priority 3 or 'AAA' level accessibility if this and priority 1 and 2 are satisfied Achieving this level will improve access to web documents. A web content developer may address this level, otherwise, one or more groups will find it somewhat difficult to access information in the document.

Source: WCAG

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Accessibility Facts

• Nearly 1 in 5 People Have a Disability in the world.• 57 Million Americans have a Disability.• females have higher rates of disability than males.• According to UNICEF, 30 per cent of street youths have some kind of disability.• In the United Kingdom, 75 per cent of the companies of the FTSE 100 Index on the

London Stock Exchange do not meet basic levels of web accessibility, thus missing out on more than $147 million in revenue.

• 500 Million people (7% of the world's population) are over the age of 65.• 35 Million people are over the age of 85• 15% of the world's population is expected to be over 65 by 2050.• Aging and disability are linked. 52.6% of people over age 75 have disabilities. • Disabilities are differently distributed in advanced and developing countries.• Over 1 billion people (16% of the world's population) cannot read.

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Computer and Mobile Usage Accessibility Facts

• 23.5% of the world's population has Internet access right now (that's about 1.5 billion

people) . This number has more than tripled since 2000, and is expected to continue its

rapid increase.• However, people with disabilities use the Internet much less than people without

disabilities. According to a 2010 US government study, the overall adoption rate of

home broadband was 68%, but only 38% for people with disabilities.• According to Lighthouse International, in the US 51% of persons (all ages) with no

disability regularly use a personal computer, compared to 13% of persons with

vision problems. While 23% of persons without a disability have never used a

computer, 70% of those with a visual problem have never used one.• There are more than 4 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide. Many of these

phones also have access to Internet resources.

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Users Daily Habits

Reading & Writing

E-Mails

Search

Reading &

Watching Sport Content

Social

Writing & Reading Blogs

Shopping

Reading Finance

News

Answering &

Asking

Questions

Local N

ews &

Weath

er

Listening

Music

Gam

es

Watching

Video Programs

DIGITAL DAILY HABITS

Answers

Lifestyle

Video

Finance

Weather

Games

Entertainment

Flickr Groups

HomepageNews

Messenger

Search

Mail

Sport

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Examples

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