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One billion people globally are living with a disability. As a business operations and strategy consultant, More Canvas is often asked, “Why should my business care about accessibility?” The quick answer is to point back to those one billion individuals. Digital accessibility is no longer an option—no longer a nice-to-have feature. Without making it a priority in your organization, you are potentially excluding a seventh of the global population.
As part of More Canvas’s online accessibility initiative, More Canvas Accessibility Consultant Calvin Van Zytveld continues his blog series giving a deeper look into accessibility topics. In today’s blog, Calvin discusses an important point: while some sites are technically “compliant” according to various web accessibility standards, this does not mean that the sites offer a smooth interface for disabled users. User testing for accessibility is an important and valuable step when it comes to ensuring your site offers a rewarding experience for all.
While there are various tools and systems that can increase the accessibility of web content, one of the key ways visually impaired users access web content is via a screen reader. Still, the infrastructure of many websites makes accessing web content challenging , and unless you understand how a screen reader works in practice, it can be difficult to shape web content so that it can be easily understood via screen reader software. More Canvas Accessibility Consultant, Calvin Van Zytveld, is here to help.
People love videos. In case anecdotal evidence isn’t enough, the statistics demonstrate their ever-growing prevalence. Videos are viewed on social media platforms billions of times each day (on each platform). None of that should come as a surprise. However, learning that a staggering 85% of viewers watch videos with the sound off may cause marketers to think twice about how they approach video creation.
