Provide user controls for moving content
How many times have you visited a website that tries to get your attention with movement? Your eyes catch the scrolling text or a blinking advert, and you take notice for a second or two. More often than not, what you looked at wasn’t why you were visiting the website.
You
Time limits have user controls
If any of your content is time-controlled, you risk losing users who need more time to read and understand the information on your website.
Time-controlled content is anything on your website that expires or becomes unusable by your users after a certain time. A common example is giving a user ten minutes
Your website must not trap keyboard users
Your users have varying degrees of motor skills and may use your website with only their keyboard.
You must make sure that keyboard-only users can’t get stuck anywhere on your site. All parts of your website should be reachable by keyboard alone (See Guideline 2.1.1). Your users must also be
Your customers will have varying degrees of motor skills and will benefit from keyboard accessibility. Customers with motor impairment, including many elderly customers, need your help to navigate your website. Many of these customers will use their keyboard to move around your website.
This article explains what you need to do to meet Guideline 2.1.1 –
Don’t play audio automatically.
Introduction
Automatically playing sounds can distract and disorientate users, especially those with cognitive impairments.
How to Pass
Don’t have any audio that plays automatically.
Exceptions
Although you can technically pass this guideline by adding a pause, mute or stop function to automatic audio, that’s a bad idea. You don’t want users searching around your website for the
Don’t use presentation that relies solely on colour.
Introduction
Users with visual impairments may need help when you use colour on your website. You can solve this by using other identifiers such as labels, shapes and patterns, issue.
How to Pass
Ensure no instructions rely on colour alone
Ensure that no information (like charts and graphs) relies on
Use more than one sense for instructions.
Introduction
“Sensory characteristics” is an important but complicated-sounding phrase in web accessibility. It’s actually far less complicated than it sounds. The sensory characteristics of your website are things like shapes, sounds, positioning and size.
You’ll often come across sensory characteristics in instructions to users. Saying things like ‘Use the search bar
Present content in a meaningful order.
Introduction
The meaning of content on your website relies on the order you present it. For example, in English we read from left to right and read a left-hand column before a right-hand column.
Users who rely on assistive technology (such as a screen reader) to interpret content, require content to be
Provide users with content that has clear structure and relationships.
All users benefit when your website structure is logical and each section of content has a clear relationship with the content around it. Visual cues like headings, bullet points, line breaks, tables, bolding, underlining links and other formatting choices help users understand the content.
Assistive technology often
Provide a second alternative for video with sound.
Users with hearing impairments may not be able perceive the sound on a video.
While captions can provide some assistance, adding an audio description track or text transcript helps more users enjoy your content.
How to Pass
Provide a full text transcript of the video; or
Provide a version of
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