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.).
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There is an abundance of web accessibility evaluation tools out there. They differ in features, how they work, the way in which they show evaluation results, type of issues identified, and many other aspects.
Read moreWeb accessibility evaluation tools are tools you can use to evaluate wether web content (websites or applications) meets accessibility standards and guidelines, identifying actual issues and potential ones; some of them are also designed to be used as development aids.
Read moreThis informative document provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) introduces the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). It explains their purpose, illustrating the reasons why they are important and how they get developed.
Read moreWhen websites and applications are properly designed and coded, people with disabilities can use them. However, currently many sites and tools are developed with accessibility barriers that make them difficult or impossible for some people to use.
Read moreProvided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as an informative document, WAI-ARIA overview is a tutorial specifically crafted to introduce what the WAI-ARIA is, describe its purpose, and illustrate the role of all supporting documents making the specification (called the WAI-ARIA suite).
Read moreATAG overview is a document that introduce the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 standard. It describes the “ratio” behind this specification, as well as providing all the context that is necessary to understand why things have been organized in “the way they are”.
Read moreATAG at a glance is a document that paraphrases and summarizes Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 with (hopefully) clearer, more understandable terms. The main intent of this document is to help people understand the content of the ATAG specification, summarizing and paraphrasing concepts that may be hard to grasp while reading the proper specification.
Read moreAvailable as a plugin for Adobe Xd and Figma (with support for Sketch coming soon), Adee is a “comprehensive accessibility tool” you can install to integrate accessibility directly in your design workflow.
Read moreIn this guide from WebAIM you can find a summary of the problems a user may experience with regards to web accessibility. Problems are classified by disability, so that it can be clearer why they are an issue and what may be the most appropriate solution.
Read moreWhen it comes to making a website or application accessible, sometimes it is tempting to elaborate different designs to accommodate people with different needs. In this guide from WebAIM you can find a brief overview how the pros and cons of this choice when compared to the available alternative: a single design, that tries to accommodate all needs of people with disabilities.
Read moreThe process of creating an accessible website or application begins much earlier than the first line of code that implements it is written: the visual design of a page or screen can have a very significant impact!
Read morePeople with visual impairments may use certain typographic settings to make web pages more readable, but they can have an impact on the layout of your page.
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