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From the Ted Talk by Clive Loseby: The internet's accessibility problem -- and how to fix it

Unscramble the Blue Letters

We are in the year 2022. The first set of guidelines for wsietbes to help ensure that they met the needs of diebslad people were reeslaed quite recently, actually, in 1999. A mere 23 years ago. Yep. I'm not joking. All the information has been available to everyone since then. It is also a legal requirement in most countries, but above everything else, it helps every business and every organization become more iucsnilve. And yet, 97% of websites contained detectable accessibility failures last year.

Open Cloze

We are in the year 2022. The first set of guidelines for ________ to help ensure that they met the needs of ________ people were ________ quite recently, actually, in 1999. A mere 23 years ago. Yep. I'm not joking. All the information has been available to everyone since then. It is also a legal requirement in most countries, but above everything else, it helps every business and every organization become more _________. And yet, 97% of websites contained detectable accessibility failures last year.

Solution

  1. disabled
  2. released
  3. inclusive
  4. websites

Original Text

We are in the year 2022. The first set of guidelines for websites to help ensure that they met the needs of disabled people were released quite recently, actually, in 1999. A mere 23 years ago. Yep. I'm not joking. All the information has been available to everyone since then. It is also a legal requirement in most countries, but above everything else, it helps every business and every organization become more inclusive. And yet, 97% of websites contained detectable accessibility failures last year.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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accessibility statement 6
disabled people 5
upstairs seating 4
screen reader 3
basic level 3
cookie banner 2
detectable accessibility 2
accessibility failures 2
blind people 2
physical buildings 2
accessible web 2
web design 2
left hand 2
catering company 2
page navigation 2
tab key 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
detectable accessibility failures 2
accessible web design 2

Important Words

  1. accessibility
  2. business
  3. contained
  4. countries
  5. detectable
  6. disabled
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  9. guidelines
  10. helps
  11. inclusive
  12. information
  13. joking
  14. legal
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  20. requirement
  21. set
  22. websites
  23. year
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  25. yep