Accessibility testing is a type of usability testing that evaluates how well a website or app can be used by people with disabilities. is the practice of making your web and mobile apps usable to as many people as possible. It makes apps accessible to those with disabilities, such as vision impairment, hearing disabilities, and other physical or … Read the rest
Category: Accessibility
Designing Accessible Experience
When designing an accessible user experience, keep the following 10 factors in mind.
1. Making Labeling Visible
A user with a screen reader does not have access to the same visual signals as sighted users do—unless form fields are properly labeled. It may be difficult for these users to determine the appropriate information to provide in a given form field. … Read the rest
Why accessibility matters in UX design?
Why accessibility matters in UX design and why it’s important for businesses
Accessible design translates to better design. “When we design for disability first, you often stumble upon solutions that are better than those when we design for the norm,” shares Elise Roy, a disability rights lawyer and design thinker, in her TED Talk When we design for disability, … Read the rest
Designing for accessibility
Designing for Disability accessibility:
The whole point of technology is to make our lives easier. It helps us save time and effort so we can focus on what’s really important in life rather than on the mundane tasks we need to complete.
While it could be difficult to completely eliminate barriers because of the specific needs of people with particular … Read the rest
Accessibility in UX design
An estimated 1.3 billion people – or 1 in 6 people worldwide – experience disability at some point. Disabilities come in all shapes and sizes and can be temporary or permanent. Embracing accessibility isn’t only the right thing to do, but also a tremendous opportunity for business growth and impact.
The role of accessibility in UX design
Accessibility Overlays
Why Accessibility Overlays Are Not A Good Idea (https://lnkd.in/eb6MX3Uh), a thorough overview of why accessibility overlays are problematic and how to argue with business about why it’s better to implement an accessible solution instead. By Ruben Ferreira Duarte.
To many companies, accessibility overlays feels like a simple, reliable and almost magical way to solve the “accessibility problem” for … Read the rest
Accessibility/Design For Deaf People.
How To Design For Deaf People. Practical guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who have some kind of deafness ↓
✅ 90–95% of deaf people come from hearing families.
✅ Deafness often occurs due to exposure to loud noises.
✅ Not only at birth; emerges with age, disease, accidents.
🚫 You can see only around 30% of … Read the rest
Accessibility Research
How to build and run accessibility research, across various dimensions — from permanent and temporary to situational and travel, across touch, seeing, hearing, speaking and thinking.
How We’ve Built Accessibility Research at Booking.com” (https://lnkd.in/eq_3zSPJ), a fantastic case study on how to build accessibility practices and inclusive design into UX research from scratch. Kindly put together by Maya Alvarado.
🚫 Don’t … Read the rest
New WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Guidelines
High-level overview of what’s new and what’s changed in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – WCAG 2.2, which have been promoted to W3C Recommendation status.
Whom do these guidelines help?
- Users with Low Vision – The new criteria in WCAG 2.2 expand the specifications for visuals and improve the focus of on-screen items to enable better visual perception and keyboard
Quick guide | WCAG 2.2 Accessibility
New WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Guidelines, and what it means for you. Useful pointers with guidelines to comply with WCAG 2.2 A, AA and AAA ↓
✅ WCAG 2.1 is a golden standard for digital accessibility.
✅ It comes with 3 conformance levels: A, AA and AAA.
✅ Each level comes with its set of “success criteria” (guidelines).
✅ Level AA … Read the rest