accessibility-assignment.md

Accessibility Assignment

This assignment is due Tuesday, October 16.

Link to your post below:

• Wenhe:
  • Accessibility on Web Design
• NHibiki:
  • Blog: Accessibility in Web
  • Try: Github Pull Request
• Luna: Accessibility Assignment
• Camille Weins: openFrameworks Accessibility Audit
• Jiwon Shin: Nature of Code Accessibility Audit
• Guillermo Montecinos: ml5.js Web Accesibility Audit
• Emma Rae Norton: Accessibility Audit: NYU Website
• Amitabh Shrivastava: Accessibility in Web Design- OpenROV Forum
• Nico Escarpentier: Accessibility for 3d web graphics
• James Hosken: Blender Accessibility Audit
• Hadar Ben-Tzur: Lighthouse

Instructions

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

1. Review Intro to Digital Accessibility slides.
2. Review the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview
3. Complete the Teach Access tutorial.

Perform an accessibility audit of an open source project.

1. Find an open source project to audit for accessibility. This could be a project's website, github repository, or some other aspect of the project (associated tutorials, etc.) You are also welcome to use ITP course materials. Here are some suggested projects if you are feeling stuck:

   • ml5.js website
   • p5.js website
   • p5.js Web Editor
   • Processing website
   • ICM OOP programming tutorial
   • The Nature of Code book
   • Programming from A to Z tutorials

2. Use an automated accessibility checker. Here are some suggested ones:

   • WAVE Browser Extension
   • Color Contrast Analyzer
   • Google Chrome Accessibility Tools

3. Review the materials manually yourself with a screen reader.

   • Mac OS Voiceover, Mac Accessibility Support
   • JAWS free trial for Windows

Document your findings

Write up the results of your audit in a blog post and link above. If you are feeling ambitious you could file an issue with the project and/or a pull request. This reporting templates with resources might be helpful.