| General Accessibility |
- Slow or unstable internet
- Time limits create pressure
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- Fast-loading and responsive pages
- Clear, simple layout
- No strict time limits
- Works on different devices and screen sizes
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| Motor / physical |
- Hard to click small buttons
- Difficulty using a mouse
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- Large, easy-to-click buttons
- Keyboard navigaton
- Support for eye tracking, alternative input devices
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| Visual |
- Difficulty seeing content
- Screen readers don't work
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- Strong colour contrast
- Alternative text for all images
- Semantical HTML and screen reader friendly structure
- Skip to content links
- Zoom and resize support
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| Seizure conditions like photosensitive epilepsy |
- Flickering content or flashes can induce seizures
- Certain visual patterns like dots and lines may trigger discomfort or seizures
- Some colours may also trigger reactions
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- No flashing over 3 times per second
- Keep motion minimal
- Small animation areas
- Pause or stop controls
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| Auditory |
- Audio without captions
- Poor sound quality
- Hard-to-follow audio
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- Captions on all media
- Transcripts
- Clear, high-quality audio
- Playback controls
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- YouTube caption checker
- Amara
- WAVE
- Lighthouse
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| Cognitive / learning |
- Confusing navigation
- Too much text or clutter
- Hard-to-understand language
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- Plain English content
- Clear structure and headings
- Chunked information
- Visual supports
- Consistent layout
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- PlainBench
- WAVE
- Lighthouse
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