Everything You Should Know about Web Accessibility
What is website accessibility?
Web accessibility is the practice of making internet browsing a more inclusive experience by removing limitations or challenges that people with disabilities could face.
By this principle, people with physical disabilities including the visually impaired and hearing impaired, situational disabilities and socio-economic restrictions can access information on the internet without any trouble.
Why is web accessibility important?
Without web accessibility, people with disabilities will be restricted from equal access to basic rights like better education, employment, healthcare and so on. Of course, besides making your app or website easily accessible for people with disabilities, it can also improve your brand image for using good design principles on your product.
How are accessible websites designed?
Building an ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design) compliant website is how you start designing an accessible website.
The WCAG (web content accessibility guideline), which stresses on the four principles of Perceivability, Operability, Understandability and Robustness, will be your guide in this process.
Designing websites that adhere to web accessibility standards may not sound like something that could be on the priority list, the chances of hitting a major roadblock is very real, as is evident from a rise in lawsuits against non-ADA compliant websites.
Read on for everything you should know about web accessibility and building an ADA compliant website, including tips and a closer look at the WCAG principles.
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