[Accessibleweb] Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up, Thu 5/11/23 at 10 AM PT

[Hadi Rangin]

Hi everyone,

It is almost time for our monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up!
Please join us for another casual and friendly virtual meeting to discuss some accessibility challenges.

Topic 1: Review website/applications
Reviewing your site/application for accessibility is the main component of this meet-up and we all learn from such reviews.
As always, let me know if you would like to review your site/application for accessibility.

Topic 2: Load more vs. pagination approach
Greg Schlimm from CoMotion Innovation Center is seeking for feedback on their search implementation.
Our accessibility question relates to long lists of posts that can be searched or filtered by category. Typically, we reveal 10 or more results at a time, with a UI for revealing additional posts. Our startup page currently implements a "Load More" approach. You can reveal more startups without a browser refresh, but it has shortcomings when you use the browser back button. Some websites implement a pagination design, with previous, next, and page number buttons. This simplifies the back button and history behaviors, but it requires more page refreshes.

Before I get into the bug fixes and history issues, I'd like to hear the pros and cons of these designs.

Specifically, I will be focused on this CoMotion startup list, but our conclusions will be applied to other features and websites.
https://comotion.uw.edu/our-impact/startups/

This 2016 Smashing Magazine article raises similar questions in an e-commerce context.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/pagination-infinite-scrolling-load-more-buttons/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/pagination-infinite-scrolling-load-more-buttons/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!neGZ87VRzzMg-kNLBTobPKFInh0PArUsc0dxbC-AJ9UJjzRf2j4fYTV3MXqZp5IFwA6sogcabAghqA$>

Meeting info

  *   What: Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meetup
  *   When: May 11, 2023 10-11 AM PT]
  *   Where: https://washington.zoom.us/my/hadirangin
  *   Meeting ID: 206 221 1532

About Monthly Web Accessibility/Usability Meet-up
Our meetings usually consist of two 30 minute segments. The first 30 minutes of our meetings are dedicated to casually reviewing your projects. This generally includes lots of hands on testing and code review. If you are working on a project and would like to get accessibility feedback from your peers, please let us know and we will add it to the agenda. We always encourage you to bring your own sites and topics, as it is a great learning experience for everyone.
Then for the last half of the meeting we have some topics we would like to bring to you to discuss, although we may not have time to cover all of them in depth.

How to Join the Mailing List
We send our announcements typically a week prior to the meetup through various internal mailing lists, including the accessibleweb mailing list - which is open to the public. Please subscribe to that list to receive the announcements if you haven't already done it yet. You can do so by accessing this link:
https://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibleweb.


Thanks and looking forward to talking to you,

Hadi Rangin
IT Accessibility Specialist
Access Technology Center/ATS/UW-IT
(206) 685-4144
hadir at uw.edu<mailto:hadir at uw.edu>


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