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Re: Internal tool accessibility justifications

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From: Marissa Goldsmith
Date: Sep 26, 2017 7:30AM

I try to preach that anything you do to make your site more accessible is
good for the general population. It works that way in the real world (think
curb cut-outs, automatic doors). It's tough to find solid data, but a few
things ring out:


- Many accessibility best-practices are also in line with a lot of SEO
best practices. Being accessible can help improve your search ranking.
- Think about how we all use closed captioning every day. It's a given
now on a Facebook video - I won't watch one without closed captioning.
Here's an article I read last week about how closed captions benefit all
students - it's not a web article per se, but definitely speaks to the
benefit of closed captioning:
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/8/a-rising-tide-how-closed-captions-can-benefit-all-students
.
- Here's a good article from NNG on font readability:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/legibility-readability-comprehension/



Marissa Goldsmith
www.marissagoldsmith.com
571-354-7746
@mjgoldsmith




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On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:30 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Thanks, I wanted to find non-legal justification. As these are the items
> that normally pop-up on my searches and only work in certain countries. USA
> it works really good but other countries this doesn't occur.
>
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