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This page describes how accessibility guidelines are implemented in Mobility web and mobile applications. |
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What is Digital Accessibility?
Accessibility is the practice of making information, activities, and/or environments sensible, meaningful, and usable for as many people as possible. Digital accessibility ensures that all users can perceive, use, and operate web content, software, mobile apps, and other forms of digital media. Accessible means a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use.
Web Accessibility
Web accessibility means that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them. More specifically, people can:
perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web
contribute to the Web
Web accessibility depends on several components working together, including web technologies, web browsers and other "user agents", authoring tools, and websites.
Mobile Accessibility
"Mobile" is a generic term for a broad range of wireless devices and applications that are easy to carry and use in a wide variety of settings, including outdoors. Mobile devices range from small handheld devices (EX. feature phones, smartphones) to somewhat larger tablet devices. mobile accessibility generally refers to making apps more accessible to people with disabilities when they are using mobile devices.
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Accessibility Implementation in Mobility Web Application
Making the web application accessible
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the web. It is responsible for creating and maintaining the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). WCAG defines how to make digital content more accessible and usable for people with a wide range of physical, sensory, and cognitive abilities.
The current version of WCAG (2.1) consists of thirteen guidelines, organized around four principles (POUR) of accessibility: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust. Each guideline is accompanied by testable success criteria, which are linked to explanations and relevant techniques
In the mobility web project, the above-mentioned W3C WCAG (2.1) guidelines were taken into consideration for the development of accessibility.
Within each guideline are success criteria that are specific enough to be testable. These criteria fall into one of three levels: A, AA, and AAA, which build on one another.
Level A covers basic accessibility requirements.
Level AA is the international best practice and is usually the level required in legislation.
Level AAA is considered advanced conformance and sometimes includes elements that are more difficult to implement.
To meet a particular level, you first have to meet the one that precedes it. To reach level AA, you also have to meet all of the A criteria.
For the initial phase of accessibility implementation, here, we’ve considered only the Level- A Accessibility implementation.
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