Why a11y?

Help people with disabilities

• Enable everyone to swipe through a dating app

• Do not give voice instructions

• Provide a decent content description

• Do not use color-only indication

Statistics

Disabilities

• there are 20% (1.5B) people with disabilities worldwide

• 20% of them have significant disabilities

• 17% have visual impairment (blindness, farsightedness, cataract, color blindness)

• 6% hearing loss

• 2.6% (IQ below 75)

Disabilities coming with age

• 12% People aged over 60

• 16% People aged over 60 by 2030

• 46% Elderly people have disabilities

Temporary disabilities

• 25% 20-year-olds

• 284 Sunny days in LA

• 90% of Czech Republic is covered by LTE

A11y means general usability

Financial reasons

• Bigger target audience

• Companies choose tooling based on a11y

• Estimated $6.9 trillion in annual disposable income

Brand reasons

• Enhance your brand

• Corporate Social Responsibility

• Public Statements about Digital Accessibility Culture

Legal reasons

• Americans with Disabilities Act

• European Accessibility Act