Accessibility

Overview:

Web accessibility is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to, websites on the World Wide Web by people with physical disabilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed. Thereby it focuses on how a disabled person accesses or benefits from a site, system or application. Accessibility is not conned to the list, rather it extends to anyone who is experiencing any perma-nent, temporary or situational disability. the UK, 1in 5 people have a disability - this could be visual, hearing, motor(affecting movement), or cognitive (affecting memory and thinking).

Accessibility:

Accessibility is about making sure your service can be used by as many people as possible. Web-accessibility is now a very integral part of govt. laws and regulation. The UK govt website is a great explame of accessible website. Section 508 is the governing principle and it requires that all government information be accessible to disabled users. As designers this reponsibility falls on us to give accessibility a top priority. WCAG 2.1 is based on 4 design principles: By focusing on principles, technology, we can emphasise the need to think about the different ways that people interact with content. Considering a diverse user personas/ research can be a good start towards accessibility.

Take away:

Accessibility is the ease of interaction different users have irresespective any barriers. As designers yhe responsibility falls on us to define this interaction. I wish to know more about this subject and find more about my masters research question of how multimodality can help secure accessibility? and what are the dimensions of web accessibility.

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