Accessibility Is Not Enough
Meeting a technical standard and being genuinely usable by disabled people are different bars, and this piece is about the space between them. Worth reading if your team treats a passing audit as the end of the work.
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Meeting a technical standard and being genuinely usable by disabled people are different bars, and this piece is about the space between them. Worth reading if your team treats a passing audit as the end of the work.
A single page paraphrase of the guidelines under their four principles, perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. The right place to start before opening the full specification, which is long and written for conformance testing.
Covers the main categories of disability and what each implies for a page, using concrete examples rather than legal framing. A good first hour for a product manager who has never had to think about any of it.