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How the 7 deadly sins πŸ‘Ώ will make you an Accessibility Expert! πŸ˜‡

GrahamTheDev on August 30, 2021

I am a sinner, it is far more fun than being good πŸ˜‰. So let's see how we can use the 7 deadly sins to our advantage when it comes to accessibility....
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Mads Stoumann

What’s next? A11y for atheists?

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GrahamTheDev

Yes, yes and YES! That is an awesome idea!

Oh here we go, a whole religion-based accessibility series is born 🀣

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Natalia Asteria • Edited

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti ARIA

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The Church of Emacs would like to have a word with you.

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Alvaro Montoro

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti ARIA

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Mads Stoumann

Is that a non-prophet organization?

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Natalia Asteria

What a pun.

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Mads Stoumann

πŸ˜‚

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Eka

Secular Humanists international website...

wave.webaim.org a11y check result for humanists.international showing 16 errors, 66 contrast errors, 117 alerts

(Fewer errors than the Vatican's I think? 😁)

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GrahamTheDev

Yeah, it is only 170 errors in Axe, so it needs to get 8 times worse (and 8 times more ugly) to beat the Vatican! 🀣

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Ravi Krishnappa

A11y4AπŸ˜€

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

I hope you enjoyed my silly article, if you do want some more resources on accessibility or some guidance on how to make something accessible just let me know under this comment and I will point you to some useful resources!

Oh and don't worry, I will be participating in the "typewriter wars" that are going on, I just wanted to get this article out!

Finally, if you like the article cover let me know, that is the new branding (minus the adjustment to the logo to have devil horns and a red outer ring of course! 🀣)

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Ravi Krishnappa

Typewriter war? πŸ˜€
Fontastic battle. Arial bombardment to annihilate all Western European character sets.

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sheriffderek • Edited

Excellent article! It's strange that it's so hard to convince people to make something better - that will: make them look good, make them more money for probably the same amount of work/time. This is a fun angle.

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GrahamTheDev

Thanks, yeah I try and do my little part to show people that accessibility does add to their bottom line, perhaps I should revisit that though as it has been a while since I framed accessibility "from a selfish perspective".

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You missed another God's own website: kerala.gov.in/. I come from Kerala! It isn't so great though:

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Via lighthouse CLI
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GrahamTheDev • Edited

There are only 368 accessibility issues on that site, great if you compare it to the Vatican! 🀣

Got to say 4/100 on Lighthouse is impressive going though!

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Natalia Asteria • Edited

Literally the Material Design and web.dev website, talks about dark mode but does not have dark mode.

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GrahamTheDev

Weird but this didn't show in my notifications.

I can't think of a site about accessibility that doesn't have accessibility errors...the irony is not lost on me!

And yeah, can't expect religion to care about people with disabilities...it isn't profitable! πŸ˜‰

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Me

What did I just read? 😬

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GrahamTheDev

My silliness put down on paper! (as always!) 🀣🀣

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Me

Psst... this isn't paper. :D

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GrahamTheDev

I write every article on paper, let the computer take a picture, use Machine Learning to identify the text and convert it to text, add auto formatting and then post it automatically to DEV...is that not how everyone else writes articles? πŸ˜‹πŸ€£

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Me

I like you. Have a cookie. πŸͺ

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Quick question how about content creation? Cause I didn't know about the issues faced by people with disabilities till I was looking at how I could create content for them.

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GrahamTheDev

Sure, what do you want to know? Are you looking at it purely from a creating content on sites like DEV and best practices or on your own site?

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GrahamTheDev

Not sure if you saw this, but this post covers (without labouring the point on accessibility) a lot of good practices:

Points 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are all accessibility best practices.

But if you want more info let me know, might even write a dedicated article on it if there is too much to cover in the comments!

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Thanks I'll look through it

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KMohZaid

As 1 in 6 people have a disability and 1 in 10 people have a disability that affects the way they interact with your website it is a massive market that is being ignored!

The Click-Away Pound report estimates that UK businesses lose over Β£17 billion a year to their more accessible competitors (notice I say more accessible, nobody is getting it right it is just some sites have fewer barriers!).

Imagine if just one site was fully accessible, that site could become a power house and grab all of that money!

Yup, i have disability known as lazyness. i want automation possible on sites

eg. rclone on storage sites to upload whole folder with lots of subfolders

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KMohZaid

I mean, I am sure many people would give their right arm for a woman like that. (and yes, that was a dark joke, I am evil remember?)

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KMohZaid

Yes, I am a monster, I lust after power and I lust after influence to make change happen.

not after women?

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Keff

Great rant, and funny as always! The wrath website was extremely polite though ;P

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

Haha, well it caused quite a stir on here as I forgot to censor the swearing in the cover image (I got the wagging finger naughty naughty boy email from the DEV team! lol!), so I thought I needed to give a heads up!

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Martin Romario Ntuwa

I love the satire in the post. I probably wouldn't have read it if it was just plain text. Thanks for the info.

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GrahamTheDev

Hehe no problem, hope you found it entertaining!

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Ekama Emmanuel

I wanted say come confess your sins but I think you should Jsut continue sinnig, the lord can't help you

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GrahamTheDev

Hehe, well pretty sure attacking the Vatican website was the point where God threw their hands up and went β€œnope, lost cause” and moved on 🀣