It focuses on ensuring people with disabilities can perceive understand and operate the product, it is often tied to specific standards like the WCAG, some examples would be a screen reader, AAA colour contrast and narrator.
It is often seen as the minimum bar or outcome, as the product can now be used by people with disabilities
The EAA is an EU directive that mandates accessibility requirements for key products and services, aiming to improve market functionality and social inclusion for people with disabilities. It requires that many digital and physical products, such as computers, smartphones, ticketing machines, and e-commerce services, are accessible. Non Compliant business face penalties
This act ensures digital services are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. which has been taken from the pour principles in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
94.8-96.3% of websites are inaccessible, It is important to have your website or product be perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.
Perceivable - Can it been read and seen easily, I can sense it
Operable - Could it be used easily or without a mouse? I can use it
Understandable - Is it easy to understand? Does the user know what to do next? I can make sense of it
Robust - Can it work across multiple different technologies? e.g responsive design. It works with my technology
It is important that we recognise exclusion and learn from diversity
We were given a task of five people who you admire, respect or look up to and why (In no particular order)