How tech's biggest names are making accessibility a top priority
empfehlenTitel: | How tech's biggest names are making accessibility a top priority |
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Form: | Internetpublikation |
Autor(en): | Selena Larson |
Jahr: | 2016 |
Herausgeber: | The Daily Dot |
Auszug: | Last football season, Yahoo's Darren Burton did something he'd never done before: he commissioned a fantasy football league. That may not sound like a particularly impressive feat to you, but for Burton, navigating lists of players, stats, and scores is a unique challenge, because he is blind. Burton is an accessibility specialist on Yahoo's accessibility team, a four-man group of engineers and designers that make Yahoo's family of apps accessible for everyone, including those with visual, audio, or physical impairments. So when Yahoo began making its fantasy service, full of numbers and real-time feeds, fully accessible to everyone, Burton didn't want to just test it; he wanted to be the boss. I briefly met Burton at Yahoo's accessibility lab, a large room at the company's Sunnyvale, Calif. headquarters where everyone from Yahoo employees to new graduates to startup founders to CEOs of international companies can peek inside the inner workings of Yahoo's accessibility efforts and discover ways to improve their own services. (source: extract from article) |