Methods to Make a Website Accessible
3 Basics Methods to Make a Website Accessible
A business can grow online, only if its face or website is accessible from all over the world. The features like accessibility, screen readers, user interaction and voice command applications can be difficult to achieve. For 90% of websites, accessibility can be achieved easily, even without involving designing principles. Many major to minor things can effect the performance of an online business to a great extent.
Few things that make a substantial difference in the accessibility of a site are:
1. Buttons Are Standard HTML
Buttons are incorporated to trigger actions. They can perform any function that includes save progress, submit form, open a panel, or send a message action. If you are doing any of these tasks, there's need to embed a standard HTML button.
Now you may be wondering, how do using buttons make sense in accessibility. Buttons are natives and can be used from a keyboard. This means a browser and operating system knows what to do with a button element. They will be accessible from every keyboard and browser. If one triggers an action command from the JavaScript, or a span or div tag, the elements won't be available with a keyboard. Neither the user will be able to find them nor they'll be activated.
2. Links Are Always Links
Bit similar to buttons, links are incorporated to serve a specific purpose on a site. They are designed to take you to a particular window, website, web form or a webpage. They can also be natively used from a keyboard. Links are attached to a JavaScript code by the WordPress developers to initiate a button-like event, like submitting a form.
If a screen reader finds a link, it may be expected that it'll take him to a new page or location on the same page. If the action is performed immediately, this could be frustrating, and the interface can be harder to use. The 'a' element present in the link tag is not actually the link, it's an “anchor” element. If you add the href attribute, then it becomes a link. An anchor is something that is usable from the keyboard not the 'a' element.
3. Images Alone Are Meaningless
Images are a good medium and the first preference of web designers to show emotion, information, and context. Photos can only convey a message or information, if only they are visible. In many cases, due to incompatibility problems of a browser, an image is not at all accessed. Furthermore, for people with visual disabilities, viewing an image properly may not be possible. Therefore, to make it accessible, provide meaningful text to share what the image is revealing.
These are the three areas of basic web development which are effective enough to make a website accessible. To attract visitors to visit your site, its necessary to have a better user interface. SaskatoonTech is a reputed online marketing company that offers affordable web designing, WordPress development, content marketing and search engine optimization solutions in Saskatoon.