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What is Digital Accessibility?

Digital accessibility is the practice of removing barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to, digital systems by people with disabilities. This involves designing and developing websites, mobile applications, software, hardware, and other digital platforms in a way that they can be used by individuals with a range of abilities, including those with visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities.

Digital accessibility not only benefits those with disabilities but also enhances the overall user experience, making digital content more usable and understandable for all. In many jurisdictions, it's a legal requirement under disability discrimination laws.

How does one improve digital accessibility in their products?

Key components of digital accessibility include accessible website design, multimedia with features like captions or transcripts, properly formatted digital documents, and accessible software and apps. It also extends to hardware design.

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An immersive and open source escape game raising awareness of the challenges faced by people with digital disabilities (opensource.orange.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tota11ylost ― the escape game that aims to offer you an immersive experience, raising your awareness of the challenges faced by people with digital disabilities

You will be immersed in a scenario, in which you will play as a character with different deficiencies with each new step taken. You will have to solve the puzzles and challenges one by one, overcome obstacles related to accessibility and ergonomics to advance in the game. It’s up to you to get out of it, alone or in a group, against these difficulties!

The game is available in English, French and Spanish, and the source code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/Tota11ylost) under the GNU Affero General Public License 3.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What do you mean? Having a quick look in the source code shows that the three languages items are plain HTML hyperlinks. I am not used to front web development, could you bring more details please?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The link in your screenshot links to #. That's not a share-able languaged link. And I suspect all three have that same href?

The only semantically correct reason to link to # is to jump to the top without JavaScript scroll functions.

Links with JavaScript functionality using a <a with href # is a relatively common misuse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Feel free to submit an issue in the repository 😁