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An intro to accessibility

#A11Y in Apps and Websites

###Usability v Accessibility

When people talk about both usability and accessibility, it is often to point out how they differ.

Accessibility often gets pigeon-holed as simply making sure there are no barriers to access for screen readers or other assistive technology, without regard to usability, while usability usually targets everyone who uses a site or product, without considering people who have disabilities.

In fact, the concept of usability often seems to exclude people with disabilities, as though just access is all they are entitled to.

What about creating a good user experience for people with disabilities—going beyond making a Web site merely accessible to make it truly usable for them?

The above section is quoted

Great accessibility/usability will by default have a fantastic UX

If you bake in Accessibility form the start, you are keeping a firm hold on simplicity

###Screen Readers

#####iOS

Settings > General > Accessibility

#####OSX

command + F5

You will definitely need to follow the tutorial

###Money Reader by Looktel

Demo of this crazy cool app

###alt-tag

Botht the alt-tag and use of semantic HTML greatly help improve accessibility

###ngAria

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngAria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmYDggEgU-s

###Links from Cara Quinn, EIR

http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag

http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/02/usable-accessibility-making-web-sites-work-well-for-people-with-disabilities.php

http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2014/09/user-experience-and-accessibility-working-with-visual-designers.php

http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS

http://www.boia.org/?stateful=7C07768F7BCC288044B9FF15F7A74828&wc3

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