RE: Non-text contrast research

Hi everyone,

Apologies, I should have not assumed the video player was accessible. (Admittedly I didn’t think it would be great, but I thought the play button would work :-/ )

This is a reflection on the limit of the screensharing tool & recording facilities  we (the working group) have, which is nothing to do with the folks at Google.

I’ve extracted the audio and video and put them in a basic browser players here:
https://alastairc.uk/tests/wcag21-examples/ntc-research-video.html

or to play locally in your preferred player here is the MP4 (55MB):
https://alastairc.uk/tests/wcag21-examples/ntc-research-meeting.mp4

or the audio-only mp3 (25MB):
https://alastairc.uk/tests/wcag21-examples/ntc-research-meeting.mp3


For anyone on the AG working group, the minutes are also available from the last meeting email.

Kind regards,

-Alastair


From: Alastair Campbell

Hi everyone,

The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group had a really interesting presentation from & discussion with some of the accessibility folks at Google.

The area of research was to do with non-text contrast, and involved recruiting people with low-vision (assistive technology users) to test certain button styles available in the Material design system.

The slides from the presentation area available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CFNxozlyO1lmiyRVCFuhQ_0t2c5QTLskY03CCeTpUuA/edit#slide=id.g59fb189588_0_56


And there is a recording which I’d recommend for the audio, as the slides are talked-through and generally described there:
https://mit.webex.com/mit/lsr.php?RCID=42dc7191ccb949e681ad88d6de4f1622


Practical (and public) research directly into these types of issues is rare, so I’d like to say a big thank-you to the team at Google for sharing this.

There are some recommendations that I’m sure we can act on, I’ll comment on that separately, this email is to share the links and kick-off the discussion.

Happy GAAD,

-Alastair

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