Accessible UX best practices

Understand the critical best practices that ensure disabled people have an accessible user experience (UX).

Colour and contrast

Make sure that colour can be clearly seen if it conveys meaning, and that you always provide an alternative way to convey that meaning.

• Visual disabilities that impact seeing colour
• What are colour and contrast?
• Design with colour in an accessible way
• Testing colour and contrast

Designing documents for print

Make your print documents accessible and easy to read.

Keyboard accessibility

Using only a keyboard, it must be possible to navigate and interact with a web page easily and logically.

• Common keyboard commands
• Keyboard focus
• Keyboard operability
• Testing keyboard accessibility

Language of content

Declare the language of text content so that browsers and text-to-speech software can read it correctly.

Mobile applications

Understand how to create and test for accessible mobile applications.