Web Accessibility Principles

Question 1

What is the bare minimum to make content accessible at all?

Answer 1

It must be perceived by at least one of your 5 senses
(sight, sound, touch, taste, smell)

Question 2

Which senses are we concerned with in regards to web content and accessibility?

Answer 2

1 - Sight
2 - Sound
3 - Touch

Question 3

What is a flaw for designers and developers (who make up the majority of web creation) (2)?

Answer 3

1 - They are typically relatively young, without disability

2 - They design website content that works for people just like them

Question 4

For people who cannot visually perceive website information, what is important to provide them?

Answer 4

A different way to perceive the website content (typically sound)

Question 5

What technology converts text to synthesized speech?

Answer 5

Screen Reader

Question 6

What do screen readers do (2)?

Answer 6

1 - Convert website text to synthesized speech

2 - Allow visually impaired users to listen to web content

Question 7

For users who cannot see or hear, how can they perceive website content?

Answer 7

Touch

Question 8

How can users perceive a website through touch?

Answer 8

Digital text can be converted to three-dimensional braille characters that a person can feel with the hands (refreshable braille device)

Question 9

What is traditional braille?

Answer 9

Raised dots printed on sturdy paper

Question 10

How do refreshable braille devices work?

Answer 10

1 - They present one line of text at a time, allow the user to feel it, then move on to the next line of text

2 - This works in an identical way to screen readers, with the output being braille not speech

Question 11

Why does perceivability matter?

Answer 11

If you can’t perceive web content, it may as well not exist.

Question 12

If you can’t see, what typical website content is unusable? (some examples)

Answer 12

images, animations, colors, backgrounds, visual placement and layout

Question 13

If you can’t hear, what typical website content is unusable? (some examples)

Answer 13

videos with sound

Question 14

What are the web accessibility principles?

Answer 14

POUR (Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust)

Question 15

What is the best approach to offer an alternative for individuals with different sensory abilities to ensure they can fully participate?

Answer 15

Provide an acceptable alternative that works for their available sensory modalities

Question 16

How do you make an image accessible?

Answer 16

Add alt text (alternate description of the image)

Question 17

How does alt text work?

Answer 17

Screen readers can convert this text description into speech or braille to make it available by sound or touch

Question 18

How do you make an audio recording accessible?

Answer 18

provide a digital text transcript that deaf people can see with their eyes, and that people who are both deaf and blind can feel with their fingers when it is converted into braille

Question 19

What is the universal format?

Answer 19

Digital Text

Question 20

Why is digital text the most universally accepted accessibility format?

Answer 20

It can be converted into all of the other useful sensory formats

Question 21

Is an image of digital text the same as digital text?

Answer 21

No - images of text are not accessible and need alt text or to be replaced with live text

Question 22

Why is alt text hidden (for lack of a better term)?

Answer 22

Visually able users don’t need to see duplicated content

Question 23

Why should captions have the ability to be turned on and off?

Answer 23

1 - gives users freedom and choice

2 - people who can hear probably don’t need to see synchronized captions with the video

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