Essential resources for creating an accessible website

Key quotes:

• "“Woman” isn’t much help, but maybe “Woman drawing design flow chart including accessibility, usability, branding, and design” with the use of screen readers would be better You should add captions to your tables using the caption tag in order to make them easier to understand by screen readers rather than just making the title of a table in bold text."
• "Closed captions are very useful not only for accessibility (permanently and temporarily disabled users) but also for users who may be using your website somewhere where they can’t play audio, such as in an office or in a noisy location."
• "You can check out the full list on how to make the web accessible here and here According to MDN: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) is a simple set of HTML attributes that define ways to make Web content and Web applications (especially those developed with Ajax, JavaScript and more recent web technologies like Bootstrap) more accessible to people with disabilities.For instance, ARIA enables accessible navigation landmarks, JavaScript widgets, form hints and error messages, live content updates, and more."

Key quotes:

• "Despite these bigger names garnering national media attention, the vast majority of defendants in ADA lawsuits are small- to medium-sized businesses that aren’t able to invest dedicated resources in web development and legal protection."
• "When it comes to websites, however, the ADA does not set specific requirements or guidelines for making a site accessible."
• "In general, best practices for ADA compliance can be broken into three areas: Google provides guidelines for webmasters to ensure accessibility, including specific callouts for available HTML features that can help accessibility."
• "Making your website accessible to anyone regardless of ability also allows search engines to better index and rank your content."
• "In order to ensure that your website is accessible to all users, including those with disabilities, you need to conduct an audit with specific factors in mind."
• "Can your site be read by a screen reader?Individuals with visual impairments use technology to read the text on their screen and understand the user journey."

Key quotes:

• "Web Accessibility focuses on how a disabled person interacts with your website."
• "When you build accessible websites, it doesn’t just help those with permanent disabilities."
• "I have always seen my grandfather struggle to read content from website, so people who are aging are a good example of those with changing abilities, who can also benefit from the accessible web."
• "Here are some tips that can help you get started with building accessible web apps."
• "Make sure to provide these alt text to all images in your website."
• "This is because, screen reader devices rely heavily on the alt text to describe the image to people with visual disabilities."

Key quotes:

• "Here are five tactics centered around empathy, flexibility, incremental changes, market share, and industry standards to convince your team to make accessibility a priority."
• "Valuing the importance of accessibility in design can be hard for people to grasp unless they have personally experienced a disability or know someone who has."
• "Once you’ve completed each exercise, talk about how you can improve your website, app, or product images to make them easier to see or use for people with disabilities."
• "This pride in team progress will be valuable to keep the team motivated to make more changes and design their products with a sense of empathy for users with accessibility needs."
• "And the more frequently people experience that sense of progress, the more likely they are to be creatively productive in the long run.” Make an accessibility plan that creates a sense of progress in your team."
• "If your competitor has successfully designed a product that people with accessibility needs can use, your competitor may dominate the market."

Key quotes:

• "This book was one of the first resources I came across that encouraged UX designers to include people with disabilities in user research."
• "A great way to determine if your design is appropriate for someone on the autism spectrum is to conduct user research with people who have autism."
• "In this article, Zsombor Varnagy-Toth explains how to conduct usability tests with people on the spectrum and what to expect in the process."
• "In this article, David Sloan explains how conducting user research with people with disabilities is a great way to learn from a historically neglected audience."
• "In this article, Mikey Ilagan explains how to organize design and technology events that are accessible."
• "Kennedy, each email provides links to articles, books, podcasts, and other resources about accessibility."