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Space for positioning sign language player
How can a blind blogger or web developer customize their site’s interface, with less help as possible? And how can a sighted person be helpful without being a full-time assistant? When could AI replace eyes, and where human expertise remains fundamental?
Elena and Gloria can witness how in the Gutenberg era designing a site without sight is not too much challenging any more, becoming even funny like playing with bricks: thanks to the editor’s structure, they have started collaborating and learning one from the other, almost speaking the same language.
With its large amount of keyboard shortcuts WordPress’s block and site editor makes it easy to perform most operations and, overall, blocks logical structure is very similar to a screen reader’s approach to a web user interface: elements are positioned sequentially.
No motivational and resilience based quotes can help people with disabilities to advocate for social causes, if then technology creates barriers; Gutenberg seems to currently be the only page builder providing accessibility both in frontend and backend, and this talk’s intention is to encourage non-visual creators to take a step forwards, and developers to consider accessibility more and more in their plugins and themes interfaces.
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