How to create polished accessibility experiences for web users in 2018?

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How To Create Polished Accessibility Experiences
For Web Users In 2018?
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• Living a life devoid of any disability is a boon
  in itself however, not everyone is the
  privileged one. You must have heard about
  inclusive policies, lets see how you can
  practice it by designing an accessible website.
• We have been successfully delivering web design
  and development services
• for more than a decade. Today we would like to
  discuss how you can make your website inclusive
  for the people with disability.

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What is accessibility?

• Accessibility basically refers to the experience
  of users who access or interact with things
  differently than a typical user does. To be
  specific, accessibility concerns users who are
  experiencing some sort of disability or
  impairment and it could be non-physical and
  temporary also.
• Although, in this post our discussion of
  accessibility is centered on users with physical
  disability or impairment but you can always
  relate to an experience wherein you have used an
  interface that wasnt accessible to you for
  various other reasons.

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• Ever had an issue accessing a desktop site on
  your mobile phone? Have you ever failed to find a
  familiar menu on your phone or tablet? Those are
  nothing but accessibility issues.
• However, addressing accessibility issues, in
  general, improves the overall user experience for
  every user.
• You can also enhance the accessibility of your
  website by having a responsive site, even though
  it is not the only way to make your website
  accessible. To find out why responsive design is
  indispensable for a business website.

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Why does accessibility matter?

• If you are wondering why accessibility is so
  important then this stats would give you some
  clarity on this. Almost 15 percent of the Worlds
  population has a disability and 2 to 4 percent of
  them have difficulties in functioning.
• When your website is accessible it implies that
  your organization or business has inclusive
  policies in place and you are making your content
  accessible to a wider range of people including

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• People Who Are Blind,
• People With Hearing Impairments,
• People With Cognitive Limitations Or Learning
  Disabilities Such As Dyslexia, Asperger,
  Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Etc.
• People Who Have Limited Movement And Are Unable
  To Lift Their Hands
• People Who Have Difficulty In Speaking.
• Are you wondering how to make your website
  accessible? Well, nothing to worry about! There
  is a standardized guide to help you out in case
  you want to make your website more inclusive
  known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  (WCAG) 2.0.

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How does WCAG work?

• The WCAG is structured around four principles
  just remember the acronym POUR in order to easily
  remember the principles

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• Perceivable Is the text and media on your
  website perceivable for everyone? If you ask this
  question while designing your website then you
  can easily keep in mind that just because your
  content is perceivable by sight which is just one
  sense doesnt mean that all users can equally
  perceive it.
• Operable Are the UI components usable by
  everyone? Can the users easily navigate through
  them? In case, an element requires a hover
  interaction then it would not be operable by a
  user who is unable to use a mouse or touch
  screen.

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• Understandable Can users easily understand the
  interface as well as the content? Is it
  consistent enough to avert confusion?
• Robust Does the content work with assistive
  technology? In other words, is your content
  consumed by different browsers and also with the
  help of assistive, rehabilitative as well as
  adaptive devices used by people with
  disabilities?

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How To Make Your Website ContentPerceivable By
Everyone?

• You can make your website perceivable by everyone
  in the following manner
• By making text and media available for another
  perception as well
• By evaluating colour contrast
• The most obvious thing about making your website
  accessible is that the website elements including
  text, audio and video that are very well
  perceived by another perception. In other words,
  users with disability are also able to access and
  consume your site content.

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• Therefore, our web development experts who are in
  charge of WCAG 2.0 implementation ensure that
  blind or visually impaired users who use screen
  readers to browse on websites can easily find out
  what this element is about. Therefore, they
  include written description and alt tags for all
  non-text content without fail.
• They also perform an accessibility audit to check
  these elements or to find out if any alt tag
  needs to be fixed. We recommend you to use a tool
  a Chrome extension called Accessibility
  Developer Tools it adds an accessibility sidebar
  pane in the elements tab.
• You can select which audit rules you want to
  apply and the violated ones will appear as a list
  so that you know which elements need to be fixed.

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• When you consider making your website content
  more perceivable you must pay heed to the
  presentation of content including layout, formal
  structure, colour and contrast. For colour
  contrast evaluation you can use the Chrome
  Extension Colour Contrast Analyzer.
• This tool would help you to analyze colour and
  contrast on your webpage as per the colour
  contrast requirements of WCAG 2.0. It would also
  help you to evaluate the PDF files or any other
  local files that you provide on your site.
  Consequently, you will receive an image analysis
  depicting where the edges between the colours are
  contrasting enough and where it is not sufficient.

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How To Help Users Navigate Through Your Content
Easily?

• While getting your site designed by
  an outsourcing website design and development
  company keep in mind to make your website content
  accessible for people with movement limitations.
• Make sure that all the content is operable
  through the keyboard interface including buttons
  and links because many users with motor or visual
  impairments also rely on keyboard.
• Heres some examples that you need to check for
  keyboard navigation functionality while checking
  for website accessibility

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How to make your website text and media
understandable?

• Remember that if you are making your website copy
  easy to understand then it will benefit everyone.
  You must focus on using simple and easy to
  understand language. Kristen Liu, Director of
  Accessibility and Advocacy for Doppler Labs and a
  disability advocate says that
• Well said Kristen, even we agree with you. If we
  design a website that is accessible for people
  with disabilities then it means that everyone can
  comprehend it easily. If you want to keep your
  content easy to understand and then you must
  limit the use of unusual words, abbreviations and
  also avoid complicated sentence structure.

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• Not all your site visitors land on your site to
  read the content, they just browse through. If
  your content is easy to understand with
  illustrations describing your product and its
  benefits then it would be definitely helpful for
  every user.
• Also concentrate on keeping the terminology
  consistent along with a simple navigation n
  addition to understandable website copy.

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How To Maximize Compatibility Of Your Website?

• In the process of making your website accessible,
  it is highly important for you to ensure that
  your website content is robust. In other words,
  your website content must be compatible with
  variety of user agents like different browsers,
  search engine crawlers, plugins and other
  programs including assistive technologies.

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• So what you need to do in order to make your
  website robust?
• All your website interface components including
  form and link elements must be able to present
  information to website visitors in different
  modalities. For instance, your headline should
  not appear like one but should also have the
  appropriate tags. This would make sure that
  assistive technology like crawlers and screen
  readers can correctly interpret your website
  elements.
• In other words, your website content must be
  semantically identified besides appearing
  readable.

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