Design

It is proven that the earlier accessibility is integrated in the development process, the better results you can achieve, the lesser the required effort is. Therefore, it is very important to consider the accessibility of your website or application even before the first line of code implementing it is written: the design phase!

In this section you can find various resource to explain the reason why the design phase has a significant impact on the accessibility of your product, and contains references to very useful tools you can leverage in this phase of the development process. Special attentions has been dedicated to all aspects related to visual appearance of an interface (fonts, colors, layout, etc.).

Resources

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Android Accessibility Scanner

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As its name suggests, the Google Accessibility Test Framework for Android is an open source framework developed by [Google]/https://www.google.com) to help developers test and evaluate the accessibility of their android applications.

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Test Your Android Apps Accessibility

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In this comprehensive guide by Google you can get an overview how different assistive technologies built-in into the Android operating systems and how to use them to test and evaluate the accessibility of your Android apps.

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Google Accessibility Test Framework for Android

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As its name suggests, the Google Accessibility Test Framework for Android is an open source framework developed by [Google]/https://www.google.com) to help developers test and evaluate the accessibility of their android applications.

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Accessible Images When It Matters the Most

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With over 65% of the world population being visual learners, meaning that they learn and remember best through visual communication, it is very important to make sure that all images used in these learning and communication processes are accessible.

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Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility With WAVE

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In this guide from WebAIM, you can read some very useful guidelines you can leverage to evaluate the accessibility of your content for people with cognitive disabilities or learning difficulties.

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Accessibility Principles

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All requirements coming from accessibility standards and guidelines can be grouped around some basic principles, which can perhaps be much easier to grasp and consider (especially during the earlier phases of the development process).

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Standards Overview

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This introductory document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) can be seen as an “entry point” to make it through the various (a lot of) accessibility-related standards and supporting documents provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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Stories of Web Users

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Imagining how people with disabilities use the Web and mobile devices can be hard. Reading all those standards, guidelines, specifications, tutorials and whatnot can be daunting, especially if you cannot make sense of the reason why your web content, mobile or desktop applications must satisfy certain requirements.

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Diverse Abilities and Barriers

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This informative document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explores the wide diversity of people and abilities, illustrating conditions that people with disabilities may face while using your products and services (websites, mobile or desktop applications, etc.

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