Accessibility is the practice of making your site accessible to as many users as possible, including people with disabilities. Most sites are not designed for accessibility with their target audience in mind. But some foreign organizations penalize for lack of accessibility.

Accessibility benefits

In addition to legal considerations, accessibility has other advantages.

  • 1. Increase traffic to your site. That’s a 15 percent increase in the population.

In addition to people with disabilities, we often encounter low-speed networks, mobile-only users, etc.

  • 2. Good for SEO, using the primitive HTML.
  • 3. Improve the public image of the brand

Types of disability problems

1. People with visual impairments

Including blind, low level of vision, color blindness. Most visually impaired people use zooming, and some users use screen readers, which are software that reads digital text aloud.

The following is an example of a screen reader:

  • Some are paid, such as JAWS (Windows) and Window Eyes (Windows).
  • Some are free, such as NVDA (Windows), ChromeVox (Chrome, Windows and Mac OS X), and Orca (Linux).
  • Some are built into operating systems, such as VoiceOver (Mac OS X and iOS), Anna (Microsoft Windows), ChromeVox (on Chrome OS), And TalkBack (Android).

2. People with hearing difficulties

These people use assistive technology to access. Assistive technology may refer to any device that helps a person with hearing aid loss or speech, speech or language impairment to communicate.

3. People with mobility problems

Some people may have trouble making the precise hand movements needed to use a mouse, while others may be more severely affected, becoming so paralysed that they need to use tools to interact with a computer.

The disability can also be due to old age rather than any specific trauma or condition, or to hardware limitations — some users may not have a mouse.

4. People with cognitive impairment

Cognitive impairment covers a wide range of disabilities, from the most limited mentally handicapped to everyone who has difficulty thinking and remembering as they age. The range includes people with mental illnesses, such as depression and schizophrenia. It also includes people with learning disabilities, such as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Importantly, although there are many differences in the clinical definition of cognitive impairment, people associated with it experience the same kind of functional problems. Such problems include difficulty understanding the content of a page, difficulty remembering how to complete a task, and confusion caused by inconsistent page layouts.

Accessibility help tools

chrome

axe DevTools – Web Accessibility Testing

The firefox browser

Axe – Web Accessibility Testing – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-us)