Website Accessibility Principles

Accessibility must be at the forefront of UX/UI design in order to ensure that all users can fully engage with and consume the product. Keep these four tenants of accessibility in mind when designing. 

Your website should be:

Perceivable

Users should be able to perceive all content on the website, regardless of any visual, auditory, or other motor impairments they may have.

• Provide text alternatives for non-text content.
• Allow users to change the way content is presented.
• Content should be easy to see or hear.

Operable

Users should be able to interact with the website without being limited by their skill level, device, or environment.

• Ensure that users can interact with the website using a keyboard and UI.
• Content should not cause physical reactions such as seizures.
• Ensure that users can navigate easily, find content, and know their location.
• Ensure that users can use alternative input methods, unexpected keyboard actions.

Understandable

Users should be able to understand the content on the website and how to use it clearly.

• Text should be easy to read and understand. 
• Content and user interfaces must appear and operate in predictable ways.

The website should be able to handle different technologies and user agents such as different browsers and devices.

• Include a translation feature for multilingual users.
• Confirm that the website can be utilized by all major user agents.
  
• Help users avoid and correct errors.