Re: accessibility toolbar

Steve i agree with you. I should clarify that I am not twisting arms for
the use of a third-party tool. Im asking for our teams to create some
switches of our own while stressing that it doesn't free us from ensuring
that accessibility is baked in. 😁 I have so many reservations around third
party tools and haven't seen any successfully execute to meet our needs.


On Wed, May 20, 2020, 3:04 PM Steve Green <steve.green@testpartners.co.uk>
wrote:

> You need to be careful when making broad statements to the effect that the
> tool does not help achieve WCAG conformance (I appreciate that’s not quite
> what you were saying). For instance, WCAG SC 2.4.7 says “Any keyboard
> operable user interface has a mode of operation where the keyboard focus
> indicator is visible.” If the website does not have a focus indicator but
> the toolbar has a feature that adds one, then the success criterion is met.
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> In principle, the same applies to other success criteria, although this is
> dependent on the tool itself and its method identification and invocation
> being accessible.
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> Steve
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> *From:* caroline <woodward.caroline@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 20 May 2020 19:47
> *To:* Steve Green <steve.green@testpartners.co.uk>
> *Cc:* w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: accessibility toolbar
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> I wonder if they felt that having the toolbar would free them from having
> things like contrast baked in?
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> I've been trying to twist the arms of folks to do this and some thought it
> meant they would be liberated from thinking about wcag and we're
> disappointed when I said no.
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> On another note that free shipping message sliding by at the top, has the
> odd effect of making me feel queasy.
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> On Wed, May 20, 2020, 2:19 PM Steve Green <steve.green@testpartners.co.uk>
> wrote:
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> Also, the colour contrast of the focus indication in the toolbar violates
> SC 1.4.11.
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> There are actually some nice tools in there, like the screen ruler and
> screen mask, but some don’t always work properly, such as the controls for
> changing the text and background colours.
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> We and most of the rest of the accessibility community are generally
> opposed to tools like this, but at least it’s cheap compared with most
> others, so it’s not taking away much budget that could be better spent on
> other things.
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> Steve Green
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> Managing Director
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> Test Partners Ltd
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> *From:* Annie Heckel <annieh@onlineada.com>
> *Sent:* 20 May 2020 19:01
> *To:* w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: accessibility toolbar
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> Even without really investigating the toolbar much, I had to laugh when
> simply opening it caused the page to create a failure of WCAG 1.4.10:
> Reflow.
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> -Annie H.
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> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:40 AM Char Easter <ceaster@seattletimes.com>
> wrote:
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> Any thoughts on this accessibility toolbar? It appears on the site,
> https://farberwarecookware.com/
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> The tool is authored by,
> https://hikeorders.com/accessibility/main-accessibility-features/#accessibility-tools
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> Thanks,
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> *Char Easter*
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> UX Designer at The Seattle Times
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> p: 206.464.2945
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> e: ceaster@seattletimes.com
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> m: 206.779.2427
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> Annie Heckel
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> Lead Accessibility Auditor
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> Online ADA <https://onlineada.com/>
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