TEDTalk views passes 1 million!
I am very pleased to announce that my TEDTalk has now had over 1 million views!
It has been nearly 3 years since I had the honour of speaking at a TEDx Event in Newport. It was a truly wonderful experience and I was extremely honoured when it was featured on TED.com a few months later. Reaching 1 million views was something I hoped might happen one day.
However, it is just a number.
The number that is far more important is 190,000,000.
That is the number of active websites that are failing basic website accessibility in 2025.
Now add to that web portals, online courses and a whole host of other platforms, it becomes even more overwhelming.
Website Accessibility Guidelines first appeared in 1999. The principles haven’t changed, they have merely evolved as web technology has developed.
I keep waiting for the one event that might cause a dramatic sea-change in awareness and maybe the advent of the European Accessibility Act in a few months will be just that. I hope so.
Most of the fantastic people I have met who have an interest in website accessibility have a personal connection with it, either they themselves or people close to them have a disability that impacts their ability to do the digital tasks everyone else takes for granted.
That is why I cannot blame people for being ignorant. If we hadn’t been in that horrendous car accident in 1989 that caused us to have life-changing injuries, we would have been like any other web design agency. We would not have understood what website accessibility is and why it is important.
The TEDTalk is a good introduction but if you want to actually learn how your own website impacts disabled people, let my amazing team of disabled testers show you.
We can teach you how to make your website more accessible and help us at that same time in our mission.
To Change The World, One Website at a Time.
Caption: a target with 1M in the middle, an arrow is sticking in it. Below is the TED logo.
