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Cookie banners and accessibility

Yes, these do matter, especially if you are using a cookie banner to handle your privacy disclosures, super especially if you can be sued in California.

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC
UX Collective

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What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files created by a website that is stored in the user’s computer either temporarily (session cookie) or permanently (persistent cookie). Cookies provide a way for websites to keep track of your preferences.

What types of cookies exist?

  • Cookie type tells you who is setting the cookie.
  • Cookie length tells you how long the cookie will exist.

The average site has 23 cookies, most of them third-party and persistent.

Cookie type

  • First-party Cookies: Set by the website being visited.

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If you do anything on the page at all, you have been deemed to have accepted the terms.

This is illegal in the EU. GDPR requires *explicit* consent.