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Resources to help make your online resources accessible | ICT4IAL

How to make your online resources accessible

• Provide metadata. Labelling resources with relevant vocabulary or accessibility features makes it easier for the user to find relevant and accessible information.
• Use responsive web design, which allows the content to adapt to the end users’ output device.
• Create your website according to the User Centered Design (UCD) guidelines.
• Provide a site map. Give users a sense of where they are within your website.
• Use navigation mechanisms consistently.
• Provide a breadcrumb to determine where users are (navigation).
• Allow links and headings to be navigated using the Tab key. Provide keyboard shortcuts to important links.
• Provide ways to help users to find content. Include a search feature on each page.
• Offer a logical order of links and headers for users to navigate.
• Divide your information into manageable blocks.
• Use style sheets to control layout and presentation. Organise your documents so they may be read without style sheets.
• Create a style of presentation that is consistent across pages. Give each page a structure by using predefined headings. Your headings should follow a logical order.
• Include alternative text descriptions (alt text) for images.
• Check colour contrast with free tools.
• Allow all page functionalities to be device independent, meaning they can be used through a keyboard or voice control for example.
• Ensure that moving, blinking, scrolling or auto-updating objects or pages can be paused or stopped.
• Ensure the keyboard focus is not lost when a page refreshes.
• Include a Skip Navigation feature on each page.
• Separate information and structure from presentation to enable different presentations.
• Use a semantic structure for title, heading, quotations, block quote emphasis, list.
• Group related links, identify the group (for user agents), and, until user agents do so, provide a way to bypass the group.
• For data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers, use markup to associate data cells and header cells.
• Ensure that equivalents for dynamic content are updated when the dynamic content changes.
• Check your web pages for accessibility issues using a three-step process:
  • Manual check.
  • Automated check using free resources provided below.
• Test by trusted users of assistive technology, like screen readers, screen enlargement software and voice-input dictation.
• Test your pages in a speech browser.