Accessibility and Universal Design Flashcards
What is the biggest and most important benefit of accessibility?
Improves people’s lives
What are benefits of accessible design for businesses and organizations?
- Improves public perception of business
- Increased compatibility with platforms/browsers/devices
- Improves SEO
- Increased customer base
- Funding eligibility
- Avoid lawsuits
What are examples of accessible designs that benefit people without disabilities?
- Curb cuts on sidewalks
- Elevators
- Dual height water fountains
- Automatic doors
The design of products and the environment so that it can be accessed, understood and used to the greatest extent possible by all people regardless of their age, size, ability or disability is known as…
Universal Design
How do families and society benefit from accessibility?
Benefit from contributions of people with a variety of abilities/disabilities
How do schools/employers, groups, and organizations benefit from accessibility?
Benefit from increases in innovation and improvements to problem solving brought on by diversity/inclusion
What is an example of an accommodation that a student who is deaf might need in a lecture class?
Sign language interpreter
Providing a notetaker in class is an example of:
A. Universal Design
B. Accessibility
C. Convenience
D. Accommodation
D. Accommodation
What are the four main principles of web accessibility?
- Perceivable
- Operable
- Understandable
- Robust
What is Perceivability?
Making the output of web content available through multi-sensory modalities aligns with which principle of web accessibility
____ is the most effective alternative method of perceiving the web for a majority of people who are blind.
Sound/hearing
How is digital content made perceivable for people who are unable to adequately view or listen to web pages?
Screen reader converts digital text to braille via a refreshable braille device
What is the most universally accessible digital format?
Text
Providing a digital text description of an image or a digital text transcript of a video or audio recording is an example of which web accessibility principle?
Perceivability
What does ARIA stand for?
Accessible Rich Internet Applications
Using ARIA live regions in web content is an example of which web accessibility principle?
Perceivability
Using code to announce when a tab is expanded/collapsed or an error/confirmation is an example of…
ARIA
What is web accessibility?
Ability of a website or application to be understood by a wide range of people including those with disabilities
Web accessibility combines _____ with ______ to create websites and applications that are accessible to a broad spectrum of people.
A. Disability etiquette, ARIA
B. Functional solutions, web design
C. Web development and standards, universal design principles
D. Universal design principles, disability etiquette
C. Web development and standards, universal design principles
Providing text alternatives for non-text content, Providing captions for multimedia, and making it easier for users to hear and see content are examples of which web accessibility principle?
Perceivability
What is OPERABILITY?
Making web functional to a wide range of input devices
The usability of a mouse/touchpad, keyboard, touchscreen, voice recognition software, and other input devices on a website are affected by which web accessibility principle?
Operability
The goal of ______ is to ensure that web components work.
Operability
Longer session timeouts with a notification on a page with a form is an example of which web accessibility principle?
Operability
Which input device has near-universal operability of web content?
Keyboard
Making all functionality, giving users enough time to read content, and not using content that can cause seizures/physical reactions are examples of which web accessibility principle?
Operability
What is UNDERSTANDABILITY?
Making content and interfaces that people can easily comprehend
Why is it important to specify the language of a web page’s content within the markup of the page?
So that a screen reader will read using the correct pronunciation rules of the language
Breaking up long passages of text with headings, shorter paragraphs and lists is an example of which web accessibility principle?
Understandability
What can be done to make web content as UNDERSTANDABLE as possible for people with various kinds of cognitive disabilities who cannot read or process text?
Provide supplemental formats
Maintaining a consistent look and feel across different pages of a website is an example of which principle of web accessibility?
Understandability
Visibly noting/communicating a minimum number and the types of characters that should be used when creating a password is an example of which principle of web accessibility?
Understandability
What steps can be taken to make sure that web content best meets the web accessibility principle of being UNDERSTANDABLE?
- Make text readable and easy to comprehend
- Make content appear and operate in predictable ways
- Help users avoid and correct mistakes
Robustness is about ensuring…
Compatibility across a broad range of current and future user agents
User agents are…
A. People who use the web
B. Browsers and other web devices
C. People who help other people with disabilities use the web
D. Software developers
B. Browsers and other web devices
Making sure that web content is usable and accessible across different versions of the same browser is an example of which web accessibility principle?
Robustness
Which principle of web accessibility focuses on presenting information that can be accessed through multiple biological senses? A. Perceivable B. Operable C. Understandable D. Robust
A. Perceivable
Ensuring that interaction with web content does not depend on using specific input devices is an application of which principle? A. Understandable B. Operable C. Robust D. Perceivable
B. Operable
Alerting users to session timeouts utilizes which principle? A. Robust B. Perceivable C. Operable D. Understandable
C. Operable
True or False: Making sure that web content is robust means making sure that content is written in a manner that is easy to comprehend.
False
Ensuring that navigation features like a menu are consistent across the entire website is an example of which web accessibility principle? A. Perceivable B. Understandable C. Operable D. Robust
B. Understandable
Link text that communicates the purpose and/or destination of the link is an example of which web accessibility principle? A. Perceivable B. Operable C. Understandable D. Robust
B. Operable
Allowing users to extend a time limit on a web page is an example of which web accessibility principle? A. Robust B. Understandable C. Operable D. Perceivable
C. Operable
An audio description track for a video tour of a facility is an example of which web accessibility principle? A. Understandable B. Operable C. Perceivable D. Robust
C. Perceivable
Functionality on a web page that is both mouse and keyboard accessible is an example of which web accessibility principle? A. Operable B. Perceivable C. Understandable D. Robust
A. Operable
Important information that is communicated using both color and text is an example of which web accessibility principle? A. Perceivable B. Operable C. Understandable D. Robust
A. Perceivable
Identifying the primary language of a web page is an example of which web accessibility principle? A. Operable B. Understandable C. Robust D. Perceivable
B. Understandable
High contrast between text elements and the background on a web page is an example of which web accessibility principle? A. Perceivable B. Operable C. Understandable D. Robust
A. Perceivable
Creating designs that apply to people with or without disabilities is known as... A. Accessibility B. Universal Design C. Adaptive Strategy D. UX Design
B. Universal Design
Universal design is a _____ approach, while providing accommodations is a ______ approach.
Proactive; Reactive
What are accommodations?
Specific adjustments made to meet the needs of a person with a disability
How do we make images accessible for people who are unable to see them (i.e. people who are blind)?
Add alt text
What is alt text?
Image description added to the code that will be read by a screen reader