Accessibility in Design

Design is often the best place to tackle accessibility issues on a fundamental level. We’ve collected some resources here to help you learn how accessibility and design fit together. By actively thinking about inclusive design as part of your user interface and overall user experience, you can make a major impact before a line of code is ever written.

Accessibility basics

Here is some basic accessibility information and concepts to help you understand the practical side of accessibility and inclusive design.

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Der unverzichtbare Leitfaden zur digitalen Barrierefreiheit

Essential Guide to Digital Accessibility

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Designing an accessible user experience

The goal isn’t just to comply with guidelines or laws, but to try to create a compelling, enjoyable, and useful experience for people with disabilities.

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Scaling accessibility

Accessibility is not a one-time thing. The key to long-term accessibility success is teamwork. If you’re part of larger design or product development team, here are some resources to help you understand the bigger picture of accessibility.

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What is Shift Left Accessibility Testing?

Your friends in Development don’t want accessibility testing to impact development velocity. See where the UX-design phase fits.

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How to Scale Your Accessibility Initiatives By Empowering & Equipping Your Workforce

Learn about the tools, training and resources that can help provide value to your whole organization.

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What to expect from other roles within your organization

Here’s a breakdown of how leaders in different divisions contribute to a culture of accessibility.

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Top 5 most common accessibility annotations

These tips are key to articulate to your development team to help ensure your accessible designs are adopted.

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Wie Deque Ihnen helfen Deque

If you’re spearheading accessibility from within Design, or serving as the Design representative on a larger accessibility team, these services and training are a great place to start.

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Wireframe Assessment

Design Audits are a great way to stay ahead of the game. Our experts can review your design wireframes and provide detailed annotations to point out potential accessibility issues.

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Instructor Led Training

Get role based Accessibility training for UI and UX Designers.

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Want to explore the accessibility defects of your site right now?

Try the Axe DevTools browser extension. Something you might notice right away are color contrast issues. You have the power to fix these and make your app more accessible to people with disabilities!

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