Most of them are covering the technical part, while the visual aspect feels less clear. There are so many of these rules, intimidating and hard to grasp. So the idea that technology is equally accessible for people with and without disabilities makes sense, but still … It feels so fuzzy and hard to designersĪt least that’s what it felt to me. Doing accessibility design makes your design better and more robust, while broadening the audience. He told me that about twenty percent of the word’s population have some short of disability, and everyone can be disabled at some point. I heard this from Eric Eggert, a specialist who worked for the Web Accessibility Initiative, and the part that is responsible for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, short WCAG, which are the set of rule to follow. It is about making your digital product or website as broadly welcome as possible. “Make your website as broadly welcome as possible.” – Eric Eggert, web accessibility specialistīut much more interesting than the legal stuff, is the mindset behind accessibility. This makes knowledge about web accessibility a requirement for designers. Additionally, from 2025 on, accessibility will be required for many companies – also in the private sector – with the European Accessibility Act. There are already various national laws and policies in place that require accessible digital products for the governmental sector at least. Why you should care about accessibility? Short and drastic answer: because it’s the law. But strive to make your UI components easy to identify. Not always, if you have additional signifiers, or a clear enough context. Totally missing, that the button itself needs to have a minimum contrast of 3:1 against its background. TL DR: Avoid my mistake – I made a video about color contrast in buttons, and only focused on the text contrast, starting at 4.5:1 or 3:1 for large text.
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