Don’t use presentation that relies solely on colour
Your users with visual impairment need help when you use colour on your website. As many as 1 in 12 men have some degree of colour blindness. That means that somewhere around 8% of your male users will struggle with your website if you don’t use colour correctly.
What
Use more than one sense for instructions
Sensory characteristics is an important but ridiculous-sounding phrase in web accessibility. It’s actually far less complicated than it sounds. The sensory characteristics of your website are things like shape, sound, position and size.
You’ll often come across sensory characteristics in instructions to your users. Saying things like ‘Use the search
Present your website content in a meaningful order
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. Present the content on your website in an order that your users can understand.
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Structure your website logically
All users benefit when your web page structure is logical. Many of us take things like headings, bullet points, bolding and italics for granted. For your users with disabilities, those elements can make the difference between understanding a website and leaving it. Many forms of assistive technology rely on correct formatting to
Provide a second alternative for video with sound.
Users who have difficulty with hearing and/or vision may need assistance with audio-only or video only content, such as an audio file, embedded podcast or silent film.
By providing the same information in a different format, these users can access the content by other means, such as text or
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Provide captions for videos with audio
Users with hearing impairments may not be able perceive the sound on a video. Presenting this in caption means these users can fully enjoy the content.
How to pass
Add captions to all videos with sound.
Caption all spoken word.
Identify speakers.
Caption non-speech information (such as sounds).
Exceptions
You don’t need to
Provide an alternative to video-only and audio-only content
Users who have difficulty with hearing and/or vision may need assistance with audio-only or video only content, such as an audio file, embedded podcast or silent film.
By providing the same information in a different format, these users can access the content by other means, such as text or
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Provide text alternatives for non-text content that serves the same purpose.
Introduction
Users who cannot see images, hear audio or perceive video benefit from having text alternatives in their place. These can be read by the user or voiced by assistive technology.
Text alternatives must therefore provide the same information as the non-text content.
How to Pass
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