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Designing your Website for Usability and Accessibility

Learn how to create user-friendly websites that are accessible for all users, including those with disabilities. Explore principles of accessibility, structure for web pages, and usability testing techniques.

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Designing your Website for Usability and Accessibility

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  1. Designing your Website for Usability and Accessibility Trainers Name Organization Phone Number Email/Website ADA Trainer Network Module 7f

  2. Disclaimer Information, materials, and/or technical assistance are intended solely as informal guidance, and are neither a determination of your legal rights or responsibilities under the ADA, nor binding on any agency with enforcement responsibility under the ADA. The Mid-Atlantic ADA Center is authorized by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to provide information, materials, and technical assistance to individuals and entities that are covered by the ADA. The contents of this document were developed under a grant from the Department of Education, NIDRR grant number H133 A110020. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

  3. The Internet Provides Access News Education Job Search Information Entertainment Commerce Government Services Work Civic Participation

  4. Principles of Accessibility • Perceivable • Operable • Understandable • Robust

  5. Creating Structure for your web pages • Separate styling from content using cascading style sheets • Navigation should be simple to use and readily available on the page • Provide Skip to Main Content Links

  6. Headings are Critical to Structure • Headings are key to accessibility as they allow the user to navigate directly to each major section of the page and search for specific sections.

  7. Example: Usability Testing • Incorporation of Universal Design Principles, • Compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act; • Adherence to all W3C WCAG 2.0 Guidelines, Level AA recommended • Conducting repeated accessibility and usability testing to ensure compatibility with common assistive website technologies Cornell University, 2011

  8. Want to test your site? • WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool) by WebAIM • http://wave.webaim.org/ • WAVE indicates errors • green means an element is accessible, red is inaccessible, yellow indicates a warning • Results are meant to be reviewed by a human…a computer cannot test accessibility

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