WEB FOR ALL-Web Accessibility-Part1

Nowadays fast-growing society websites plays a key role in different aspects, we use website for different purposes and it solves almost everything we come up with.

The fundamental use of websites is for all, all means all people irrespective of any difficulties.

When we talk about online platforms, online applications, we need to think of those in a bigger and better way which can be used by all people around the world.

We have applications which can be used by anyone but we have to make sure whether that anyone includes people with disabilities.

In this world we have so many people with different disabilities that prevent them doing things in a normal way. In case of web applications as well these group of people often faces different issues when they are using the applications which are not built thinking of them.

Its their human right that they should have the same facilities as normal people have in case of web applications as well.

Thinking in that way now a days every web application is made up by making the site accessible to all kinds of people.

Now the important factors in case of making the site accessible is that how to do it, what are the areas to focus, how they use the site, what are the elements that needs to be addressed first.

Below are few areas that we can take care of at a first go:

*Colour Contrast is something which is very important and essential for people with disabilities.

*Accordions and expandable contents if present that needs to be accessible.

*Buttons are important which needs to conveyed appropriately to the disabled users.

*Alert messages are important for accessibility part.

*Headings of a page /Module needs to be appropriate.

*Links on the page needs to be appropriately labelled.

*Images needs to be appropriately labelled.

*If modals present on the page that needs to be accessible.

*Paginations needs to be accessible.

*Tables rows and columns needs to be accessible.

*Tabs needs to be accessible.

*Textual contents need to be accessible.

*Videos needs to be accessible.

*Forms and dynamic page elements needs to be accessible.

Now that I used accessible word in almost every sentence so how that works.

As normal users use the web application on computer screens using mouse /keyboard.

Accessible users can use assistive technologies to go through the websites and when the site is accessible it will help them in a lot of ways.

When the site is accessible it can used if someone zooming the site.

The site can be used using keyboard keys example tab keys to navigate the site.

Screen reader tools can read the page elements appropriately. (Example: NVDA)Color contrast also helpful for screen reader users.

?These are some very basic approaches to make a site accessible. On the next article I will dig deep in to each point individually. Hope it helps.