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From Education & Outreach

We welcome your help telling everyone about Web Accessibility Perspectives: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone.
You are welcome to use the sample wording below for your own blog posts, newsletter articles, etc.
If you write a blog, newsletter article, or such, please let us know by sending e-mail to wai-eo-editors@w3.org and we'll add it to our list. Thanks!

Basic Info

Resource: Web Accessibility Perspectives: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone

WAI Tweet you can use

@w3c_wai Tune in to new #videos that show web #accessibility is essential for some, useful for all. http://j.mp/WAIperspectives -- #GAAD #a11y

Short URI

http://j.mp/WAIperspectives

Blog and article ideas you can use

For newsletters, etc.

  • New Videos: Perspectives on Web Accessibility -- Essential for Some, Useful for AllWeb Accessibility Perspectives explores the impact of accessibility for people with disabilities and the benefits for everyone. This resource introduces 10 web accessibility topics with short videos, brief descriptions, and links to learn more. The videos relate the benefits of accessibility to everyone in different situations, and encourage viewers to learn more about web accessibility.
  • Web Accessibility Perspectives: Explore the Impact for People with Disabilities and the Benefits for Everyone — The WAI has posted the first version of Web Accessibility Perspectives. This resource introduces 10 web accessibility topics with short videos, brief descriptions, and links to learn more. The videos relate the benefits of accessibility to everyone in different situations, and encourage viewers to learn more about web accessibility. They show that web accessibility is essential for some and useful for all.






EOWG planning & record keeping

See also

Draft wording

WAI Tweets

  • Tune in to new Video Perspectives on Web #Accessibility: Essential for Some, Useful for All #GAAD #a11y
  • Tune in to new videos that show web #accessibility is essential for some, useful for all #GAAD #a11y
  • For your #GAAD session, WAI's new #accessibility videos explore the impact of #a11y and the benefits for everyone

Templates

Short Post and Twitter Template ideas:
  • Take a new look at web accessibility with the @W3C’s Web Accessibility Perspectives videos. #a11y #watchA11y #GAAD
  • Experience web accessibility from the point of view of persons with disabilities. Watch @w3c_wai videos #a11y #GAAD
  • Tune in to @w3c_wai and experience web accessibility from the point of view of persons with disabilities. #a11y
Long Post and LinkedIn Template ideas
  • Premiere of Web Accessibility Videos
  • The W3C has taken a major step towards promoting web accessibility through the release of a group of videos that highlight the issues users with disabilities face when the web is not designed with best practices and accessibility in mind.
  • There are over 1 billion individuals with disabilities around the world with over $220 billion in discretionary income. However, many we
  • Although there are over 1 billion individuals with disabilities around the world who have over $220 billion
  • According to the World Health Organization there are over 1 billion individuals with disabilities around the world. It is estimated that over XXX persons with disabilities use the web. However, many developers and web designers are not aware of
  • In the light of GAAD and the increased regulation
  • Experience accessibility from the perspective of persons with disabilities.
  • Common accessibility topics
  • In honor of GAAD
Faux Press Release for LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.

Premier of Web Accessibility Videos

The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative has taken a major step towards promoting web accessibility through the release of a group of videos that highlight the issues users with disabilities face when the web is not designed with best practices and accessibility in mind.

Research by the Pew Research Center indicates that persons with disabilities use and access the internet at lower rates than those who do not report a disability, at least partly due to the inaccessible design of many websites. Twenty-five years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) many websites are still inaccessible and many web developers are not aware of the techniques for making web pages accessible.

Common obstacles to web access for persons with disabilities include uncaptioned video, poor color contrast, image-only documents, unlabeled graphics, controls and links that are not keyboard accessible and poor layout and design.

The Web Accessibility Perspectives videos demonstrate the barriers caused by inaccessible web pages both for persons with disabilities and for other users. The videos are accompanied with tips and resources for addressing and remediating these issues. To experience accessibility from the perspective of persons with disabilities and learn more about creating accessible websites view the videos and resources at https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspectives/.

Guest Blog Talking Point ideas
  • My name is __________ and I’m a member of the W3C Education and Outreach Working Group. I want to let you know that the W3C is releasing of a series of short videos this week that highlight issues users with disabilities face when the web is not designed with accessibility in mind.
  • I’m hoping that you will check them out and consider spreading the news on your blog. Here are the details…
  • You can check out the videos at http://___________________.
  • You can download screenshots and other assets that might help you at http://________________.

Tracking

(for examples, see Done)

Video Use

Misc feedback

  • e-mail:

    I just watched your video series on web accessibility<https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspective-videos/>. It's really an outstanding series that gets everything right. I was particularly pleased to see that you included accurate and tasteful information about accessibility for people with dyslexia since I am dyslexic. I really can't think of any way you could improve these videos.

  • Oct 2017 article

    The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) describes web accessibility as “essential for some, useful for all,” with benefits for every user.

  • at [OzeWAI? conference], several people used tagline/catch phrase in presentations {Andrew, 19 May}
  • "one of the most significant things coming out of the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is the fantastic Web Accessibility Perspectives videos which provide a number of excellent examples of how people with disabilities use the web. In the past, it’s often been hard to find professional and specific examples of the web in action by people with disabilities and this resource has been a tremendous addition." 2016 year in Review

Blog posts

Tweets

English

Some tweets in 2021: §AlanDalton:

Some tweets in 2017: https://twitter.com/yatil/status/842417096092925953

Some of the tweets in 2016:

Other Languages
  • @access42net 9:18 AM - 18 May 2016 j-1 pour #gaad: @w3c_wai publie 10 #vidéos sur l'#accessibilité essentielle pour certains, utile à tous! http://j.mp/WAIperspectives #a11Y
  • @egyrs 7:29 AM - 18 May 2016 Nueva colección de vídeos que explican que la #accesibilidad #a11d es esencial para algunos y útil para todos
  • @firewalkwizme 3:37 AM - 18 May 2016 Vidéos de @w3c_wai : Expériences d'#accessibilité web et ses bénéfices pour tous dans différentes situations.