Credit to UX Collective: Accessibility checklist to design products that people will love and... use According to WCAG, users may have the following types of disabilities: auditory, cognitive, learning, and neurological, physical, speech, and visual. Now let’s see and what we should do about it:
People with auditory disabilities have any type of hearing loss and can’t hear sounds the same way as people without this disability.
Make captions or transcripts available for audio and video content with the possibility to adjust the text size and colors for captions
Add options to stop, pause, and adjust the volume
Provide alternatives to voice-only interactions
Add sign language to supplement important information and text that is difficult to read.
A person with cognitive disabilities has difficulties with mental tasks and abilities to learn.
Make sure the navigation is easy, layouts of pages and sentences are well structured. Avoid unusual words
Create consistent labels of forms, buttons, and other content parts
Ensure the most common functionality works in a predictable way. For example, the radio button assumes the choice of 1 option (not 2 or more), scroll works vertically (not horizontally)
Avoid long passages of the text without images, graphs, or other illustrations to highlight the context
Provide the possibility to turn off moving, blinking, flickering content, background audio, and animations. For example, in Apple system accessibility preferences there is an option to reduce motion:
Physical disabilities may affect temporarily or permanently people’s ability to move. These disabilities can be caused by genetic disorders, serious illnesses, or injuries.
Provide full keyboard support
Make sure the time limits are sufficient to read and understand the content. For example, if the information is shown in a tooltip or popup which has to disappear after some time, make sure the time before it disappears is long enough
Add text alternatives (text under <alt> tag) for images and controls. Text alternatives work as labels and make keyboard and voice navigation easier
Implement voice recognition, eye tracking, and other approaches for hands-free interactions.
People with speech disabilities have any type of speech disorder, where speech is disrupted.
Provide alternatives to voice-only interactions
Make sure there are multiple methods of communication listed in the contact information of your site (not just a phone number).
People with visual disabilities have a decreased ability to see. This group also includes users who can’t see well enough and don’t have access to glasses or contact lenses either temporarily or permanently.
Provide full keyboard support
Add text alternatives (text under <alt> tag) for images and controls. Just as for people with physical disabilities, alt text can be used in voice navigation and will be read aloud via VoiceOver software
Make sure text size and images can be enlarged or reduced in size using system capabilities and/or сonsider this possibility in the settings of your product
Create predictable navigation, clear title
Add sufficient contrast
Foresee customizing settings for fonts, colors, and spacing
Listen to the voice-over while testing your product (you can turn it on in browsers and operating systems), make sure it is understandable and logical.
Report ADA Problems with Library Services and Resources. Resources on this page may require Document Viewers
