Good Practices in Accessibility

What is
Accessibility?

Accessible design ensures that digital content, products, and services are usable by people of all abilities, including those with disabilities.

Interactive design foundation image of accessible design for everyone. Graphics to represent cognitive and learning disabilities, blindness, low vision and colour blindness, speech inputs, hearing impairment and motor and dexterity.
Source:
Interactive Design Foundation

Accessible websites, apps, and physical environments makes information and interaction intuitive for everyone, regardless of their challenges.

Three different images of people of different heights watching a baseball game over a fence. 3 equal sized boxes represent equality but the smallest person can't see over the fence. For equity the tallest person has no box, the middle person has one box and the smallest has two boxes to stand on. Everyone can see over the fence. Liberation is represented by no fences and no boxes.
Source:
The Center for Story-Based Strategy

Key elements of accessible design include screen reader compatibility, text alternatives for images, and keyboard navigability.

Woman usig a screen reader, icon representing a screen reader and alternative text to an image.