One story of incaccessibility:<p>An online bank does video verification. Being deaf, I couldn't complete the verification because I didn't understand the instructions. I asked someone for help, but the bank said, I need to do the verification alone.<p>What went wrong: The application didn't offer the possibility to send written instructions. The fallback of having support by someone else was declined. I offered to call a professional interpreter but that was declined, too.
I think accessibility should be the basic of all website and search engines should promote SEO based on and ON TOP OF accessibility.<p>Currently, if anything, it's more like websites first and foremost try to be "semantic web", that matters to no one other than Google. Accessibility comes as separate mark-up enhancements, an after thought.<p>The web should be for humans before it conforms to some standard that only benefits some big corp.
In this topic, there is a wonderful summary of concrete examples of dos and don'ts:<p><a href="https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-on-designing-for-accessibility/" rel="nofollow">https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-o...</a>
Is anyone else surprised by the physically-disabled people in their user stories using a regular MacBook keyboard as their primary input device? Ok, the man with quadriplegia also uses a joystick. It amazes me how inaccessible better hardware is.<p>The woman who is deaf blind uses a refreshable braille keyboard. I looked up the cost and it's ~$3000USD. Even if some nonprofit organization pays for this, you still need parents and caregivers that know to take advantage of this.<p>I have no hardware experience, but I think I may take on the task of making life easier for some people with disabilities.<p>Quick ideas that popped to mind while watching the user stories:
1. Using AI to transcribe videos for people to have a standalone captions source other than their video player.
2. Several of the users use the tab key to fill out forms. Hell, Google search is nigh-impossible to use as keyboard only; Good luck with smaller sites. Some sort of open source project for handling tabbing logically would be awesome. Maybe a chrome extension that lets devs interface with it a la sponsorblock.
3. I'm fascinated by refreshable braille now. It's expensive because the technology seems pretty niche. I'm very uneducated on this topic but it feels like a cruder technology would also work, at the cost of size or throughput. There also don't seem to be any phones/portables with this capability.<p>I'd love to get into something like this, but don't know how. If you are in this sort of space, I'd love to talk.