Accessibility is a design choice

Accessibility is a design choice and an implementation choice as well

Top design-focused issues of 2022:

• 83.9% Low text color contrast
• 77.3% Empty links & buttons
• 55.4% Missing image alt text
• 50.3% Skipped & missing headings
• 46.1% Missing form labels

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Low text color contrast

Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run album cover

Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run album cover

Screenshot of codepen “Born to color contrast” with developer toolbar open, showing color contrast checker

Empty links & buttons

Screenshot of codepen “F awesome buttons, labelled”

Screenshot of codepen “F awesome buttons, labels visually hidden”

A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions by Stéphanie Walter

inclusice design 24 #id24 will return on 21 September 2013

Missing image alt text

Screenshot of UXcamp Europe 23 homepage with developer toolbar open, showing alternative text “UXcamp Europe logo”, should be: “homepage”

“Universal law is for lackeys. Context is for kings.” — Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery S1:E2

Skipped & missing headings

Screenshot of codepen “Heading hierarchy”

sample text: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Screenshot of Tagesspiegel section page, top heading styled as breadcrumb item

The Elements of User Experience diagram by Jesse James Garrett

Missing form labels

Screenshot of codepen “search form”

Smashing books:

• “Form Design Patterns” by Adam Silver
• “Inclusive Components” by Heydon Pickering

Accessibility is a design choice and an implementation choice as well

Leaving no-one behind is a design choice and an implementation choice as well

Marcy Sutton .com (on accessibility)

Leaving no-one behind is a design choice and an implementation choice as well

Tom Hanks is Forrest Gump