Questions tagged [accessibility]
A general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. Accessibility is often used to focus on people with disabilities or special needs and their right of access to entities.
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What element to focus after user input on a chatbot?
This is similar to What element should have the focus after a search?, but not the same case.
I'm building a chatbot with Flutter (mobile). This is the flow:
Bot asks a question.
User is presented ...
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Creating an accessible, animated, and responsive navigation system
I've been struggling for the past couple weeks to design the perfect navigation (menu) system for my personal website which I am designing.
First, I need a system that is completely accessible as I am ...
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Distinguishing aria-live speech from UI accessible names
We just ran our first user test of an accessible UI prototype with blind and partially-sighted testers. In spite of my efforts to follow the various recommendations and WCAG specifications, there were ...
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How to lead AT users from non-accessible content to an accessible alternative
The Drupal website I'm working on has a traditional grid style calendar. The main view of the calendar is based on the Full Calendar JS library. After testing it with a screen reader I decided it wasn'...
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Direct voice interactions examples in use as an alternative to voice assistants
After reading an article explaining the difference between using your voice to controlling the UI (i.e. direct voice interaction) compared to dealing with a voice UI (e.g. chatbots or voice assistants)...
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Is an English only aria-label better than no aria-label at all for non-English speakers?
We have a set of buttons that have a single icon for the content and no text content. One example, a button in the top left of a modal that has an 'X' icon which is an image file. To better ...
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Accessibility and tappable colored text in apps
WCAG guidelines say that we should not rely on color to be the only visual cue conveying information for level A accessibility
At the moment, we have tappable texts that are coloured to indicate they ...
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Should single input be wrapped in a form?
Should those single inputs be wrapped in <form> tags so that screen readers can announce them as such?
Sometimes in our project (Web based SaaS) we use single input fields to operate some ...
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Patterns for adjusting settings which may hinder the user's ability to adjust that same setting again
This question is about those self-referential settings where the ability of the user to control a device, say:
using a mouse cursor, or
viewing it on a monitor screen
is itself affected by the ...
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Tabbing into a hidden navigation menu
This is a question about the interaction between navigation via keyboard (tabbing) and initially-hidden navigation items. I’m asking from both a UX and accessibility perspective.
My site has a slide-...
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Is the "feed" role also appropriate for the "Load More" button approach?
Both w3.org and MDN seem to associate the feed role with infinite scrolling, without mentioning if it applies to button-triggered loading as well (with a "Load More" button).
My application ...
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How do people with vision impairment access buildings requiring a swipe card?
With many of the commercial and corporate buildings now having more strict control around entries and exits, I was wondering in terms of accessibility how people with vision impairment are provided ...
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Why does macOS default to not allowing tab to focus on buttons?
I know I can turn it on and also use the OptionTab but I was wondering why they would use that as the default in the first place. There was an article about it from 2014 but has been updated over ...
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What accessibility pattern for filter/sort "dropdown"?
I have a design that displays a list of content that you can filter by different categories. Each filter is displayed in a dropdown menu that lets you choose one or more options, which when activated (...
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Simplified Chinese and compatibility with spoken Chinese languages using VoiceOver / TalkBack
I'm designing an app for Chinese speaking people with disability. It will be on both iOS and Android. I don't speak or read any chinese language.
The app content will be in Chinese Simplified (lang='...
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Best practice for notification timeouts
The app I'm currently working on has a notification banner that appears when successful or unsuccessful network calls. It says things like "Your address was updated successfully!" or "...
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Variable App Colors (for Branding) and Accessibility
A feature that was sold to clients long before I joined was enabling use of custom primary and secondary colors in our mobile app. This allows their branding to be communicated to users for a more ...
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On IOS have the back button but also we have one more small back button to switch from app to app, on Android how do they work?
please help me explain my concern
Please tell me what is the back link in the red circle that is only available in ios and no in android, how do they work?
I have tried all sorts of ways to compare ...
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How do you create both sufficient contrast and a harmonious outcome for text on different tints of the same color?
Here are two examples. One is a table, the other an illustration. Both use different tints of the same color with text on top. How do you change the color of the text across these tints to be both ...
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Users unable to use 2FA/MFA
We are currently developing a registration/account creation process for our website where 2FA/MFA is the route we wish to guide all users down
There may be scenarios where a user is unable/unwilling ...
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Alternatives to a Product Add-On Carousel
I have started updating my companies website to be more accessible and as I began to work on our carousel slider I ran into numerous articles stating that carousels should be avoided all together. ...
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Why is Amazon using Text Fields instead of Radio Buttons for mutually exclusive options?
I have been trying to return an item on Amazon, and this window popped up asking me to fill in the bank details. Although they have used Radio Buttons in the first line for Yes/No question, Account ...
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How should a screen reader pronounce links and buttons?
When a screen reader reads links, should they be pronounced as 'Link button', or 'Link'?
Example: Show more... (a link): should the screen reader say 'Link button', or 'Link'?
Also, how should the ...
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Mobile Screen Highlight/Tooltip Overlay - Feedback Loop
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I'm working on a mobile app that provides real-time feedback on accessibility issues of other applications (not built or controlled by me) on the device, similar to Axe or Google's ...
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Mobile Tables - Accessibility (iOS vs Android)
iOS - Disclosure Indicators
When this element is present, users know they can tap anywhere in the row to see the next level in the hierarchy or the choices associated with the list item. Use a ...
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Two Click actions on mobile screen
I was working on a mobile project and I faced a problem.
How do I show if there are two different actions on a single object in mobile?
In this screen all options have sub-options that appear on a ...
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