Designing For Accessibility - 7 Simple Tips for Your Designs
β‘ Designing For Accessibility β 7 Simple Tips for Your Designs
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@lubosvolkov
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Designing with accessibility on the mind should be standard ... However, there are still so many products which are not accessible ... We as designers should help people with limited vision or other disabilities to have good user experience as possible.
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πWhy you should read this post?
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There is a huge amount of people with limited vision, colorblindness, and other disabilities ... However, that should not prevent them from having a good user experience with the web or mobile products ... In today's post you will learn how to create more accessible user interfaces ... This will be beneficial for both regular and disabled users so definitely read it.
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What you will find in the post?
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1οΈβ£Why accessibility matters?
2οΈβ£Increase the contrast ratio
3οΈβ£Color is not everything
4οΈβ£Indicate active element
5οΈβ£Show input borders and labels
6οΈβ£Use legitimate font sizes
7οΈβ£Hovers are tricky
8οΈβ£Important takeaways
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π€― Key takeaways
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Always test out your designs with the real users (ideally with one or two people with vision issues) ... That is going to help you to validate your design decisions ... However, if you do not have access to test users you can use contrast checkers such as (WebAIM, Stark, etc) ... But contrast they are not everything be careful with them especially if you are testing white text on colored background since results can be misleading ... Trust your own judgment.