How to make Web  & Web Tools more Accessible…

Accessability is very essential in a multitude of ways throughout a website and throughout web development and interaction. These key tools make the web more accessible to people with disabilities. these components include the following:

Writing for Accessibility

  • Provide Informative, Unique page titles
  • Use headings to convey meaning and structure
  • make link tect Meaningful
  • Write meaningful text alternatives for images.
  • Create transcripts and captions for multimedia

Designing for Accessibility

  • Provide sufficent contrast between foreground and background.
  • Ensure that interactive elements are easy to identify
  • Provide clear and Consistent Navigation.
  • Provide controls for content that starts automatically.

Developing for Accessibility

  • Associate a label with every form control
  • Identify page language and language changes
  • Provide meaning for non-standard interactive elements.
  • Avoid CAPTCHA where possible
  • Reflect reading order in the code order

CONTENT

The information on a webpage or web application: Natural information such as text, Images, and sounds.

  • Code or markup that defines structure, presentation, etc.

WEB BROWSERS & MEDIA PLAYERS

Web browsers, Assistive Technologies, Media players and other user agents.

When these user agents are supported by an accessability feature. More likely to demand it and developers are more likely to implement it in their contnet.

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

The information on a webpage or web application: Natural information such as text, Images, and sounds.

  • Code or markup that defines structure, presentation, etc.

USERS KNOWLEDGE

Users knowledge, experiences, and in come cases, adaptive strategies using the web.

Users know how to get alternative text from tehir user agent and or assistive technology if needed.

 DEVELOPERS

Developers provide the appropriate alternative text wording.

Web developers usually ise authoring tools and evaluation tools to create web content.

AUTHORING TOOLS

Software that creates websites, used to enable, facilitate and promote, providing alternative texts on a web page.

when authoring tools make a feature easy to implement, developers are more likely to implement it in their content.

EVALUATION TOOLS

Web accesssibility evaluation tools, HTML validators, CSS Validators, etc.

Used to help check that alternative text exists.