5 ways Eonic makes your website accessible

Here are just a few of the ways that all my latest websites are designed to be easy to use for disabled visitors:

1 Colour Contrast

To make sure your site is easy to use for visitors with poor vision, I make sure all the text on your website contrasts sufficiently with the background to make it easy to read (using at least a 4:5:1 contrast ratio to be specific). I also make sure that if text is over a video or image, you can still read the text clearly on every screen size. Elements within a form will also have a good contrast ratio to the background.

2 Font Size

I make sure the default font size used on your website is large enough that it’s easy to read. Then I make sure that when a visitor increases the font size in their browser, everything still works smoothly up to 200% font size increase.

3 ‘Skip to Content’ Button

For visitors using screen readers, or who can’t use a mouse, it can be tedious having to go through the whole menu at the start of each page. To help here, I add a skip to content link, which lets users go straight to the text of the page. To see this, you can hit tab after a page on this site loads and the button will appear.

4 Highlights for Keyboard Users

To further assist visitors who can’t use a mouse, I make sure that if you navigate through a page using the tab button on your keyboard, there is always a clear highlight to show you where you are in the page.

5 Avoiding Conveying Information Only Through Colour

You need to make sure that you don’t rely only on colour to give information as this will be difficult for colour-blind users. One place this often happens is with links – just changing the colour of the text isn’t enough to show it can be clicked. That’s why I make sure to add an underline to our links, so colour-blind users can easily pick them out of the text on the page.

There are also many other more technical ways to keep code accessible – if you would like further details about how to make a websites accessible, please contact me.

Making sure the website is built for users with disabilities is only half the story; you also need to make sure the content you add to the site will work for them too. Find out more in my future articles on accessibility.