A little song dedicated to Henny, our team’s queen of accessibility.
UPDATE: Make that Jack Pickard as well. A much-loved accessibility expert, now much-missed.
Jeff Allen‘s clever song rewrites led me to have a go myself.
Video URL (with captions): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9i1vNnh1hg
Downloads
For your downloading pleasure, here are the video and audio–only files:
- Video (WebM): inaccessible.webm (15 MB)
- Audio (Ogg): inaccessible.ogg (2.2 MB)
License is Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. If you need a media player, I recommend VLC.
Lyrics
Inaccessible, that’s what you are.
Inaccessible, to a screen reader.
Like an art museum with no access ramp
you’re losing hits and dropping Page Rank.
Never before has a website been more…Inaccessible, in every way,
and with no updates, that’s how you’ll stay.
That’s why, webmaster, it’s incredible
that a site so inaccessible
thinks that I won’t find another site soon.[spoken]
Images should have alt tags (text)
and keyboard users, can they tab through your page?
If not, why not?
[end spoken]Like never before,
with plugins galore.Inaccessible, that’s what you are.
Inaccessible, pushing people afar.
I’ve got no official disability
but your site, to me, is a mystery.
Hope the next site is not
inaccessible too.