Webinar Recording – The Missing Lens: Enhancing user experience for hidden impairments

About the webinar

This 60-minute webinar, hosted by Craig Pryde, founder of Different Breed ®, will introduce you to the often-overlooked challenges faced by people with hidden disabilities. Focusing on visual impairments, this session will give you practical insights to help you improve the accessibility of your website to make the user experience more inclusive.

You will learn:

• How visually impaired people navigate your website by using screen readers, and how to make that experience easier for them.

• How people with colour blindness, epilepsy, or glaucoma view digital content and how to make your colour design more accessible.

• How checkout expirations can be a challenge for some users and how to ensure a smooth checkout process for people using assistive technology.
• How to improve your website navigation for keyboard users.

Examples in this session will centre on websites in the events sector, but the principles can be applied to any site. The session aims to shift your perspective, helping you think like users with hidden impairments and design more inclusive digital experiences.

Resources 

Download a copy of the presentation here

WAVE website accessibility checker tool – A website evaluation tool to check for common accessibility issues, including structure and colour contrast.

Lighthouse website accessibility checker tool – A guide to testing your website’s accessibility using Google Chrome’s built-in Lighthouse tool.

Heading elements resource – An overview of heading elements that provide structure and improve the accessibility of web page content.

What are landmarks resource – A comprehensive guide to implementing key page landmarks that organize and enhance web page navigation.

Introduction to Screen readers resource – An overview of how to use screen readers built into popular operating systems.

Different Breed – Unlock insights into your disabled audience with innovative and personalized accessibility guides.

Q&A Transcript 

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