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The A11y Rules Sound bites is a series of short shows where individual with disabilities discuss what their impairment is, and what barriers they encounter on the web.
Kelsey says: "[If] your podcast has transcripts. So I can go through and actually read the podcast, I can get the content, I can understand...
Meagan says: "Sometimes a disability or an impairment is temporary. It's situational. Most of the time I don't have issues. But when I do, I...
Justin says: "Error messages: Make them clear, make them understandable. Don't write a paragraph if you can write a sentence." Thanks to Fab...
Brennan says "people who create and teach and have disabilities actually use this stuff. We're out in the world creating things while using...
Nash says, not quite jokingly, that the entire internet is unusable for him without ad blockers! Thanks to Fable for sponsoring the transcri...
Guy says that "Everyone is different. Everyone has different needs and preferences. It's very hard to build a one-size-fits-all design." Tha...
Alex says that "running into the same barriers every time a new platform or app is released is very frustrating. It's realizing some of my s...
Nick Colley says "... in the analytics somewhere, there's a dashboard, and it says when they released shorts, I really started to enjoy Inst...
Alyssa says "sometimes accessibility is kind of still up in the air and a lot of corporate managers don't really understand that until a big...
Negoslav explains how a lack of accessibility on government websites may mean blind screen reader users can't access critical documents. Tha...
Lē Silveus McNamara says consuming Tech has a stimulant effect on the nervous system and the overconsumption of a stimulant, like technology...
Sam asks "why people who produce content where they have the script, they have the content, they have the time, they have the resources, don...
Barry says he has to guess a lot about what elements do what on a site, because semantically meaningful markup isn't being used. Thanks to F...
John says, among other things: "Let the user choose. Don't ever dictate to someone's assistive technology". Thanks to Fable for sponsoring t...
Thanks to Fable for sponsoring the transcript for this episode. Transcript Nic Hi, I'm Nic Steenhout. And you're listening to the accessibil...
Robert says: "The message I had to give folks if it was just one is don't make assumptions about how people with disabilities use the web"....
Jessie says that accessibility does not mean just catering to a specific group of people. Accessibility is not just for people with disabili...
Justin asks us to think outside of our use case, and that not everyone uses the web the way we do. Transcript Nic Hi, I'm Nic Steenhout. And...
Matt says only gather necessary data on web forms. Break down the form into multiple steps. Let user come back and add information when they...
Iris tells us that "The web has gotten more and more inaccessible over my lifetime". Transcript Nic Hi, I'm Nic Steenhout. And you're listen...
Paul points out that he doesn't have barriers all the time with the use of color alone, particularly red and green, but when he has a blocke...
Myriam says "Most people don't even consider that people like me could have an issue with their website. They don't even think about it." Tr...
Albert stresses the importance of letting users control their experience, through settings and various controls. Transcript Nic All right, I...
Amy says that if you cut text off and don't provide a way to expand it, she can't read your content. Transcript Nic Hi, I'm Nic Steenhout, a...
Amy tells us that sticky elements are a problem for her as they can hide content. And overlays don't help. Transcript Nic Hi. I'm Nic Steenh...
Dacey says, among other things "If you're going to include animated GIFs, I would recommend them not playing by default, but allowing the us...
Listen to disabled people year round, not just on International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Transcript Nic Hi, I'm Nic Steenhout. And...
Kelly says "if you have long tables and lists actually put borders on them", so she knows what she's picking up. Thanks to Tenon for sponsor...
Kevin says: Give user choice: "Obviously what's good for me won't be good for someone else. We shouldn't be designing for a kind of homogene...
Ruben, talking about text reflow, says sometimes "text will actually go over the container and sometimes I can't even see what things say. I...
Julia tells us that "it's so easy to kind of get caught up with the latest features or the latest like tricks that you learn about to make,...
Meryl tells us, among other things, that "If we notice the caption, it's a sign they're not good quality." Thanks to Tenon for sponsoring th...
Dave says accessibility comes down to simplicity. And I think there is elegance in simplicity. But so many times we see all the bells and wh...
Ben Lesh says if you can do your best to actually get the users focus on what matters and kind of limit the noisiness of the other things th...
Mike tells us about automating accessibility: "as a blind consumer, of content, information, whatever, I don't care where I get it, as long...
Thane tells us that CAPTCHAS with time outs are the worse. He types very slowly and sometimes he can't type the CAPTCHA in time. And the pic...
Di tells us that to make the web more difficult than it needs to be for disabled people is a shitty thing to do. And it doesn't reflect well...
Multiple accessibility experts discuss the importance of the default focus style. Thanks to Tenon for sponsoring the transcript for this epi...
Julieanne King tells us that super thin, font strokes, really, really skinny lettering, and using like a medium gray font color cause a prob...
Julieanne says when she's information seeking, trying to accomplish a task, movement on the screen, that is not something that she causes to...
Tori points out that using speech input like Dragon Naturally Speaking is hard when there's no visual label, or the visual label doesn't mat...
Ted explains how using switch inputs, such as the Darcy USB keyboard, can take a lot longer than other input methods. He also tells us to pr...
Dr. Ellen Spertus explains that it's easy to make mistakes on a password field and a "show password" feature is critical to accessibility. T...
Holly Schroeder says she navigates away immediately if a page is too busy. Too much stimuli overwhelms her. She can't process the informatio...
Holly Schroeder explains that when a touch target is too small she may not be able to complete a task because she doesn't have the fine moto...
Julia Ferraioli says if you're already dealing with blurry vision, making something blurry bigger, isn't necessarily going to help that much...
Michael thinks the most important thing that we fail to do on a daily basis is talking with people with disabilities or talking with the use...
Alex points out that if we make processes more complex for users, they aren't likely to be able to finish things, or complete them properly....
JL tells us about sites that don't make it easy to avoid mistakes, and don't handle mistakes well, make it hard for folks who are dyslexic....
Devon tells us how depression can cause brain fog and it impacts everything she does on the web. Thanks to Tenon for sponsoring the transcri...