The use of colour
Accessibility has been seen as a developer’s domain for many years. Of course, many things happen in code to ensure access to digital things, but the design is as important as the content, if not more so. Why is that? As a designer, you are uniquely positioned to influence the end product by creating more accessible designs from the start of the project, rather than adding them in part.
One of the most obvious tools we use is color. We use it as a design element in a meaningful way. Colors convey state and help us distinguish one thing from another. When we take the color away, we actually lose some meaning. We can’t easily tell the difference between a podcast, a series, and a subtitle.
Keyboard functionality
One of the most important requirements for accessibility is the use of a keyboard. Why? Because this actually affects many different types of people with disabilities. Therefore, in order to ensure that we provide the same functionality to all different users, we need to ensure that all of these features are available to users using the keyboard. We can do this easily by making sure that each control we click with the mouse is a simple button. So, when I switch on the screen, we focus on the map. You can see that when I use the keyboard, every control in the map is in focus.
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