Web Accessibility Principles Flashcards
What are the 4 principles of web accessibility?
Perceivable
Operable
Understandable
Robust
Which principle of accessibility is about making the output available through multiple sensory modalities?
Perceivable
True or false: You have to be able to perceive web content through at least one of your biological senses for it to be accessible?
True
What are 3 ways people can use their senses to perceive web content?
Seeing
Hearing
Touching/feeling
How can you make an image perceivable to a screen reader user?
Alt text that can be read by screen readers
How can you make an audio recording perceivable to a screen reader user?
Provide a transcript
What is the most universally accessible format available?
Digital text
How can you make dynamic content perceivable?
ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications)
Which principle of accessibility is about making the input methods of web content functionally available to a wide range of input devices?
Operable
What are examples of devices that web content needs to function on to be operable?
Mouse or touchpad
Keyboard
Touchscreen
Voice recognition software
True or false: all web components must be functional, no matter what input device a person is using, to be considered operable?
True
What does “In, Within, Through, and Out” mean as it relates to operability?
Navigate into web components
Use the features within them
Navigate through them
Navigate out of them
What is the (almost) universal input device?
Keyboard
Which principle of accessibility is about making content and interfaces that people can comprehend?
Understandable
Specifying the language in an HTML document follows which accessibility principle?
Understandable
True or false: Simplifying the reading or vocabulary level of your content will make it more understandable?
True
What are some examples in writing that can make it difficult to understand?
Long or unfamiliar words Long sentences Complex sentence construction Unclear wording Long passages of text Lines of text that are too close to each other
True or false: You should limit or avoid terminology or concepts that are unfamiliar or complex?
True
What supplemental formats can you provide to make content understandable for people who can’t read?
Images, audio, video
True or false: Providing supplemental content formats can benefit people with various kinds of cognitive disabilities?
True