Digital Accessibility: Angela Stapleford educates Aucademy
Channel: Aucademy
Date: 2022-05-21

Recorded and originally aired: 21st of May, 2022, 19:05 London BST; 11:05am PST:
*Digital Accessibility: Angela Stapleford educates Aucademy*

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CONTENT WARNING:  Exclusion and the impacts of exclusion from essential services and employment e.g. mental health issues and financial insecurity. Bullying in workplaces. 

In this session, Angela Stapleford discusses digital accessibility and the impacts of inaccessible design on neurodivergent and disabled people, as well as how we can all make a difference in improving accessibility. LIST OF USEFUL RESOURCES FURTHER DOWN. 

Guest speaker: 

Angela Stapleford (she/they) is Autistic and has a visual condition that affects their depth perception. In the past they've worked in publishing, community education, and the arts. Angela studied photography and the History of Art. She moved through lots of different jobs and workplaces and struggled to fit in, partly due to being undiagnosed as Autistic (and possibly ADHD and being Dyspraxic). She discovered she was Autistic in 2021. Angela has been working as a freelance copywriter since 2020. In 2020 she also co-founded we’re all human (WAH) with their friend Sabrina Tirvengadum who is a deaf designer. They set up WAH to spread the word that accessibility is crucial in digital design. They also wanted to make sure that designers have the information they need to create accessible design. They were tired of feeling helpless in the face of ableist assumptions and inaccessibility. They want to uphold disabled people’s human rights and make the internet accessible. As they're developing their campaign they're trying to find new ways to bring together the different people who can have an impact including neurodivergent and disabled advocates and creatives.
https://www.instagram.com/wereallhuman.uno/ https://www.patreon.com/wereallhuman
https://wereallhuman.uno/index.html

**Please note we are not clinicians or diagnosticians**

Ben Usher-Barrass (he/him) - Autistic advocate, Aucademy host, and administrative manager https://www.facebook.com/Autisticality / instagram: AutisticalityAu

Jaesic Wade (they/he) - Queer, disabled Autistic advocate, neurodivergent life coach, blogger, & community organizer
facebook.com/thequeercult 
queercult.org/coaching

RESOURCES PROVIDED BY ANGELA: 

Accessibility guidelines & talks:
www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/

readabilityguidelines.co.uk/

www.deque.com/axe-con/

Useful tools:
https://hemingwayapp.com/
(check text for readability)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorblindly/floniaahmccleoclneebhhmnjgdfijgg?hl=en
(ColorBlindly tool)

https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
(Atkinson Hyperlegible font)