Our main goal here is easier accessibility for people with disabilities to accomplish tasks online. A designer’s task is to create accessible design from the beginning of a project. Choose other methods to communicate a message.

For a person that is colorblind we can use shapes de denote differences between different elements. Using color contrast, a person with low vision may be able to differentiate colours thanks to colour contrast.  

Animation and motion techniques create engagement, and a sense of excitement in our designs. Some people experience dizziness or nausea when they watch these animations; especially when they’re unexpected. A thoughtful thing to do is to create an option on your website that deactivates this animation. Flashing elements can create incomfort to people with photosensitive epilepsy, and that’s why warnings must be put in place.  

Keyboard Interaction

An accessible keyboard can be useful to everyone who can’t use a mouse. DIfferent users need to have access to equal functionality, we can achieve that with a keyboard. In order to make sure that people have access to all data, the information accessed with a mouse needs to be replicated on a keyboard interface.

Video, audio, and images are rich content that have to have clear instructions of use, and easily repeat clips. This kind of content needs a text equivalent, a description of the object/element displayed. Decorative image or other media don’t need text equivalent.

Labeling form fields is an easy way to ensure forms are accessible. They create a programmatic relationship between the onscreen text and the form control itself so that the forms can be understood and used by people that can’t see the screen. It makes things easier for people with low mobility and dexterity impairments because they create bigger target for clicking.

Page titles, visible in the browser’s window title, they help people with low visibility to see the screen better. It’s an orientation cue that lets people know what the page is about. Using meaningful markup will ensure that the visual structure of our design is conveyed to someone who can’t see it. There are all kinds of tool like voice recognition Dagon Naturally SPeaking, screen magnifiers like Zoom Text, or screen readers like VoiceOver, NVDA or JAWS. These are efficient and easy when we have a good solid base of semantic markup. When the web designer makes sure their implementations use good, solid semantic markup, they enable people to create their own tools that help them consume things more readily.  People using assistive technologies can use it to their advantage.

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