10 ways you can improve your design and accessibility practices.
<p>Most home pages suck when it comes to accessibility. More eloquently: “96.3% of [the million] home pages [tested] had detected WCAG 2 failures according to <a href="https://webaim.org/projects/million/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">WebAIM’s 2023 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages</a>. What’s the cause? Ignorance? Cost to make it happen? Lack of awareness?</p>
<p>When I taught the front end portion of a UX/UI Bootcamp, the number of accessibility errors I saw were staggering. Why are we using h1 tags for styling?? Queue streams of tears. I think more often than not, education is failing us in basic web design principles.</p>
<p>There are over <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">70+ WCAG criteria</a>, pages of various articles and guidelines, and tons of subjective nuance to read between the lines. How much of it were you ever taught?</p>
<p>So. Let’s make life easier. Let’s design from the very beginning and help impact accessibility through UI Design and / or wireframes. We can share the responsibility of universal design and truly consider every voice from the very beginning.</p>
<p><strong>Here’s ten steps to get you started:</strong></p>
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