ghedipunk (he/him/they)Quick question, oh great and terrible internet brain extension:
What are people's web accessibility pet peeves?
I already have unhelpful/missing alt-text and low contrast text.
Current status of list:
* Explain Curb Cut Effect -- Accessibility helps UX, and starting from an Accessibility foundation allows quickly implementing UX.
* Front loading content (Put main content BEFORE the navbar in the raw HTML, even if the navbar renders above the content)
* Multiple themes available… Light, dark, high contrast.
* Color blindness aware.
* Caption videos.
* Transcripts of videos.
*Descriptive alt-text -- Is it there? Is it _helpful_?
* Responsive Design -- Tiny buttons, links.
* Bandwidth requirements -- Classist
* “Cute” responses -- Culturally inaccessible
* Browser navigation buttons.
*Mobile device back button
* Auto-playing multimedia
* Moving click targets
* Carousel objects: Pause, go back, go forward, see all options if the list is huge. See any options if the device does not support normal rendering.
* UI elements appearing over other UI elements
* Bandwidth requirements -- Classist
* “Cute” responses -- Culturally inaccessible
* Browser navigation buttons.
*Mobile device back button
* Auto-playing multimedia
* Moving click targets
* Carousel objects: Pause, go back, go forward, see all options if the list is huge. See any options if the device does not support normal rendering.
* UI elements appearing over other UI elements
* Drop-down/slide-out menus, especially if they obscure any elements and especially if they auto-hide. (No “hover” events to show/hide elements, ever. If an element is shown after clicking an element, make it part of the page’s normal layout flow.)
* Don’t do terrible things when the user resizes the text.
* Avoid images of text. (At the very least, use alt-text. Give your platform a way to annotate images that fails-to-accessible by showing the annotations)
* Don’t do terrible things when the user resizes the text.
* Avoid images of text. (At the very least, use alt-text. Give your platform a way to annotate images that fails-to-accessible by showing the annotations)
* If you have a character limit on user generated content, have a very good reason for it beyond saving disk space or inter-server bandwidth. (Okay to have a fixed length of “displayed-by-default” text, but to allow annotating images, should allow for lengthier discussions in a single post.)
* Animated gifs, etc., should not be animated without user interaction. (Epilepsy, etc.)
* Animated gifs, etc., should not be animated without user interaction. (Epilepsy, etc.)