Accessibility as an inclusive UX

The book A Web for Everyone—Designing Accessible User Experiences, by Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery, can help UXers on the mission to make accessibility happen. The book gives practical advice and examples of how to create sites that everyone can use.

Creating a website for everyone is combining good design and usability with accessibility to create inclusive design, according to Rosenfeld Media's Guide to accessibility principles at UX.

The principles of accessibility in UX are based on three main sources:

  • W3C content and accessibility guide, which provides the basics for web accessibility and best practices
  • The principles of universal design, seven principles that work for the full spectrum of human ...

Get Fixing Bad UX Designs now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.