Overview
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Make the digital world more accessible to visitors with disabilities and impairments. Learn web accessibility techniques to make sure your web designs are easy for everyone to use.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Making the digital world accessible
- An ecommerce purchase
- Personas
- The use of color
- Color contrast
- Animation, movement, and flashing
- Proximity and grouping in design
- Effective visual focus indicators
- Keyboard functionality
- Avoiding keyboard traps
- Linear flow of content
- Accessibility and touch
- Target sizes
- Working with gestures
- Working with audio and video
- Understanding media types
- The importance of text equivalents
- Accessibility for complex visuals
- Labeling forms
- The placeholder attribute
- HTML5 form inputs
- Form validation and error messaging
- Flexible vs. fixed width designs
- Responsive design and accessibility
- Designing for text resizing
- Content hierarchy and headings
- The importance of page titles
- Page structure
- A challenge for you
