ACCLAIMED actor Stephen Fry has tweeted a video about how disabled people are excluded from digital content to his 9.7m followers as part of a social media campaign.
Commissioned by the award-winning Fix the Web project the animation explains how to improve the accessibility and avoid design issues which marginalise people with special needs.
Fix the Web helps people facing accessibility issues, such as disabled and older people, to report problems with websites.
A Thunderclap social media campaign to launch the video saw 145 people send it to a potential audience of over 200,000.
Web or app developer? Here are 15 tips to make them accessible for disabled users & better for everyone http://t.co/HJd5q1vjDT #a11y #GAAD
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) May 21, 2015
Stroud's James Beecher from Fix the Web said: “Digital technology provides amazing opportunities and has great emancipatory potential - so it’s a travesty that those opportunities aren’t routinely accessible to everyone.
“But sadly, even when people are interested in the topic of making technology as accessible and usable as possible, they often don’t know how or where to start.
“That’s why we’ve come up with these 15 tips.
“We really hope this animation will help people understand what digital accessibility is, why it’s important, and how to take some steps toward improving their digital technology.”
The fifteen tips in the film are supported by a page on the Citizens Online website providing further information and links to other resources and organisations.
The video was released in time for today - the 4th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
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