It is a sunny day. The sun is so dazzling in your eyes as you are walking in to your office from lunch. You want to finish up an email so quickly but your eyes are not so obedient to look at the computer screen as it has just entered a contrastive suddenness and they […]
Continue reading Foresee Your Colors: Tools to Evaluate your design for Color contrast AccessibilityWebAIM’s Survey of Low Vision Users #2: What do we make of it?
Just as everyone and their experience are not the same, so the persons with disabilities and their experience too. So when we talk about the low vision users, every user with low vision, his/her disability characteristics and the experience in the physical world and the digital world are so dynamic and unique. In this context, […]
Continue reading WebAIM’s Survey of Low Vision Users #2: What do we make of it?Understanding SC 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded)
1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded): Audio description is provided for all prerecorded video content in synchronized media. (Level AA) The intent of this success criterion is to provide audio descriptions to the videos so as to aid blind & visually impaired users understand the visual aspect of the video content. Videos often contain a lot of […]
Continue reading Understanding SC 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded)Captions – What to expect?
Why Do We Need Captions? I travel quite a bit to work and back home. While I am commuting, I often tend to watch movies or series on my mobile. Now, do I have co-watchers, who do this every day, oh yes! With traffic and other sounds, am I able to follow the video or […]
Continue reading Captions – What to expect?Understanding SC 1.3.1 Info and Relationship
Information, structure, and relationships conveyed through presentation can be programmatically determined or are available in text. (Level A) This success criterion requires that presentation cannot alone show the info, structure and relationship. Also, it stresses that the info, relationship and the presentation must be separated when creating websites. What do we mean by presentation? A […]
Continue reading Understanding SC 1.3.1 Info and RelationshipUnderstanding SC 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence
1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence: When the sequence in which content is presented affects its meaning, a correct reading sequence can be programmatically determined. (Level A) This success criterion requires that content presented on the page must be meaningful during navigation to all users. Users navigate content from left to right & assistive technology users such as […]
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