Accessibility Guidelines for UX Designers Did any recommendation feel particularly meaningful? The article presents several categories of guidelines and items comprising the categories (items in bold are ones that caught my attention): Content and Structure – meaningful links, colour, consistent navigation, consistent components, use of headings, and multiple ways (to locate pages) Device-independent design –…

Understanding the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Make a list of the four principles of WCAG and Define Each in Your Own Terms Web content should be: Perceivable: “Users must be able to perceive it in some way, using one or more of their senses.” The web contains different types of media – text, images, video,…

How to Manually Check Your Website for Accessibility Why is manual accessibility testing important? The article states that automated accessibility checkers can only correct around 30% of accessibility issues. That number surprised me, but thinking back on my recent experiences that actually makes a lot of sense. For example, the accessibility checked included in Canvas…

Assistive technology devices: using the web Do you have any experience with assistive technologies? A few of the alternative input devices covered in this week’s reading materials include: head pointers single switch devices foot switches sip and puff switches, and eye tracking software Of these I have seen head pointers and sip and puff switches…