The concept of Web Accessibility has been around for a decade, but it is unfortunate that true meaning in its entirety has been lost on many of us, the web developers. It’s time that we built ramps to our sites so that it benefits not only people with disabilities but also enhances the experience of all types of users as a whole.

2. The Internet is an ever-increasing storehouse of knowledge. The
web and the internet as a whole serve as an important resource in
many aspects of our lives: education, employment, recreation,
commerce and more. Web Accessibility simply means that the web
is to be made accessible to everyone. And that includes people with
special abilities too — an aspect generally overlooked in haste.
The concept of Web Accessibility has been around for a decade,
but it is unfortunate that true meaning in its entirety has been lost
on many of us, the web developers. It’s time that we built ramps to
our sites so that it benefits not only people with disabilities but also
enhances the experience of all types of users as a whole.
Let’s see some examples: When you are watching a video in a noisy
environment and cannot perceive the audio correctly. Without
being able to hear the audio, you have to guess what the whole
video is about. It can be frustrating, right?

3. Let’s take another one: If you have broken your arm in an accident
and can’t use the mouse to explore the web. You have to remain cut
off from the internet until you recover. Or find ways to manage to
access it with difficulty, mostly through pain, or be at the mercy of
people who would spare some time to assist you.
There are people out there who face these challenges at every
instance of their attempts to access the Web. The true essence of
Web Accessibility lies in addressing such concerns and
ensuring that the Web is accessible by all, without any
discretion.
The World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) published a set of
guidelines, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or WCAG 1.0 in
1999, as an initiative to the Web Accessibility Initiative(WAI)
project. The revised version, WCAG 2.0 was published in 2008,
which is more technology-neutral, and therefore, is widely
accepted by the developers to make their site more accessible.

4. It may seem like a huge task to accomplish at first, but in reality, it
takes only small steps to make your website accessible to all. Steps
that should be undertaken are
Using alternative texts, and descriptions for the images.
Adding subtitles and transcripts for videos.
Ensuring that your site is fully and equally accessible by the
keyboard.
Making use of the Accessible Rich Internet Tags (ARIA) tags.
Having a good color contrast.
These are some tools which can help to make your website more
accessible:
WAVE by WebAIM
Click here to know more about web accessibility.
Like other businesses, if you too are looking to develop RPA
solutions, Mindfire Solutions can be your partner of choice. We
have a team of highly skilled and certified software professionals,
who have developed many custom solutions for our global clients
over the years.

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